of or belonging to or active during the day; "diurnal animals are active during the day"; "diurnal flowers are open during the day and closed at ...
having a daily cycle or occurring every day; "diurnal rotation of the heavens"
A flower that opens only in the day; A book containing canonical offices but not matins; A diary or journal; A daily news publication; Occurring daily; Primarily active during the day; Open during daylight hours, closed at night; Repeated or recurring daily. ...
Performed in twenty-four hours, such as the diurnal rotation of the Earth.
Active by day-, as opposed to nocturnal.
Occurring in the daytime. A patient may have a diurnal fever rather than a nocturnal one. Diurnal also can refer to recurring every day. ...
Daily; related to actions which are completed in the course of a calendar day, and which typically recur every calendar day (eg, diurnal ...
Most active during the daytime rather than at night.
active by day.
during the daytime. The diurnal resting places of mosquitoes, especially newly-fed females, may be important in malaria control
Organisms that are active during daylight hours.
Pertaining to the day time. Used in referring to the 'sect' of a chart: ie either diurnal or nocturnal. If someone is born during the day time when the Sun is above the horizon then they have a diurnal chart. If they are born at night then they have a nocturnal chart.
day or daytime; daily or daily cycles; as opposed to nocturnal.
The term diurnal refers to a tide which has a period or cycle of approximately one tidal day (about 25 hours). Diurnal tides usually have one high and one low tide each day. The tides at Karumba are a typical example of diurnal tides.
literally "of the day", but here meaning having a period or a "tidal day", ie about 24.8 hours See also: semi-diurnal
referring to daily phenomena.
of flowers, opening only during daylight hours.
Recurring daily. Diurnal processes on Earth repeat themselves every 24 hours but on the Moon repeat every 28 Earth days. The length of a lunar day is 28 Earth days.
A reference to a period of one day.
relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period; daily
Daily, usually applied to events or cycles that repeat on daily intervals.
Used to describe birds that are active during the day. Most birds are diurnal.
Pertaining to the daylight portion of the 24-hour day.
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nocturnel means an animal that only comes out at night when its dark ect. owls, bats, foxes and even the moon that's when they come out for there food and stuff so you don't see them during the day ,...
it means they would not care if someone was as mean to you as mean as they were to you. sometimes it means they do and its just that they are too insecure to tell the truth and use childish anticks...