diurnal

Speech parts

1. diurnal - Noun

2. diurnal - Adjective

3. diurnal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.

Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.

A daybook; a journal.

A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

A diurnal bird or insect.

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Examples

A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears; She seemed a thing that could not feel; The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . . William Wordsworth

No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled around in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. William Wordsworth

diurnal animals are active during the day Source: Internet

diurnal flowers are open during the day and closed at night Source: Internet

diurnal and nocturnal offices Source: Internet

diurnal rotation of the heavens Source: Internet

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