Diurnal: alternatives and connections

By day, or every day; in the daytime.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the da…

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.

The time between daylight and candle light.

the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, na…

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between…

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Euro…

High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or b…