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PRONUNCIATION OF DIURNAL MOTION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIURNAL MOTION

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Diurnal motion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIURNAL MOTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Diurnal motion

Diurnal motion is an astronomical term referring to the apparent daily motion of stars around the Earth, or more precisely around the two celestial poles. It is caused by the Earth's rotation on its axis, so every star apparently moves on a circle, that is called the diurnal circle. The time for one complete rotation is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. The first experimental demonstration of this motion was undertaken by Léon Foucault. Direction of the motion in the Northern hemisphere: ▪ Looking to the north, below the North Star: left-right, west-east ▪ Looking to the north, above the North Star: right-left, east-west ▪ Looking to the south: left-right, east-west Thus northern circumpolar stars move counterclockwise around the North Star. At the North Pole, north, east and west are not applicable, the motion is simply left-right, or looking vertically upward, counterclockwise around the zenith. For the southern hemisphere, interchange north/south and left/right, and replace North Star by southern celestial pole. The circumpolar stars move clockwise around it. East/west are not interchanged.

Definition of diurnal motion in the English dictionary

The definition of diurnal motion in the dictionary is motion that occurs during the day or daily, such as the diurnal rotation of the celestial sphere.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIURNAL MOTION

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Diu
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diurnalist
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diuturnity
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divagate
divagation

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIURNAL MOTION

accreditation
body lotion
commotion
devotion
emotion
harmonic motion
in motion
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lotion
love potion
motion
Newton´s laws of motion
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Synonyms and antonyms of diurnal motion in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «diurnal motion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIURNAL MOTION

Find out the translation of diurnal motion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of diurnal motion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diurnal motion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

周日运动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

movimiento diurno
570 millions of speakers

English

diurnal motion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दीन का प्रस्ताव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحركة نهاري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

суточное движение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

movimento diurno
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দৈনিক গতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mouvement diurne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gerakan diurnal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tagesbewegung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

日周運動
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

낮의 움직임
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Diurnal gerak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuyển động ban ngày
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தினசரி இயக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दैनंदिन गति
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gündüz hareket
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

moto diurno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobowego ruchu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добове рух
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mișcare diurnă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημερήσια κίνηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

daaglikse beweging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diurnal rörelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dagaktive bevegelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diurnal motion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIURNAL MOTION»

The term «diurnal motion» is used very little and occupies the 173.299 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIURNAL MOTION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diurnal motion

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIURNAL MOTION»

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A Source Book in Medieval Science
In this way, a constellation near the north, i.e., the Great Bear which we call the Chariot, does not move backward, the chariot in front of the oxen, as it would if moved with diurnal motion; but it actually goes forward in the right direction.
Edward Grant, 1974
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A philosophical and mathematical dictionary: containing an ...
If the mean diurnal motion of the sun be subtracted from that of the moon, the remainder will give the moon's diurnal motion from the sun: and thus may a table of this motion be constructed. 3. Since the moon is in the node at the time of a total ...
Charles Hutton, 1815
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The Equatoriw of the Planetis
Table of the diurnal motion of the mean motus of the Sun, Mercury and Venus ( single table); the radix is for 31 December 1392, at London. Table of fractions of a day. 8r. Table of the diurnal motion of the mean motus of the Moon; the radix is for  ...
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Equatorie of Planetis
Table of the diurnal motion of the mean motus of the Sun, Mercury and Venus ( single table); the radix is for 31 December 1392, at London. Table of fractions of a day. 8r. Table of the diurnal motion of the mean motus of the Moon; the radix is for  ...
Price, 2012
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The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle
cause is common to this same diurnal motion of the different bodies. We now also assume (let us make a concession to inductivism) that the distances of those bodies from us and the motion of comets refute the theory of the spheres.
Joseph Agassi, 2012
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The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses ...
Earth's diurnal Motion did not commence till sometime after its Annual, i.e. till after it was intirely sorm'd and consolidated together; and by consequence, in all probability, not till after the Fall of Man. In the next place therefore, III. I shall assign ...
Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy, 1708
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
On the Ten-year Period which exhibits itself in the Diurnal Motion of the Magnetic Needle. By Dr. Lamont of Munich*. THE remarkable experiments of Faraday relative to the diurnal motion of the magnetic needle, have induced me to submit the ...
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The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, ...
The apparent 11 7- Again ; ,let the Nature sought be the spontaneous Motion of Rota-. diurnal Mo- tion; and in particular, whether the Diurnal Motion, whereby the Sun and tion of the Stars rife and set, to the Sight, be a true Motion of Rotation in ...
Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw, 1733
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A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary: Containing an ...
If the mean diurnal motion of the fun be subtracted from that of the Moon, the remainder will give the Moon's diurnal motion from the fun : and thus may a table of this motion be constructed. 3. Since the Moon is in the node at the time of a total ...
Charles Hutton, 1795
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Philosophical Magazine
The sun's mean motion in i 2 „- S 1 'I respect to the equinox, in | « J? q § £ J 00 years, or 36524 days - 99 11 29 46 36-75 in one year, or 365 days - - - — II 29 45 40 36833 The sun's mean diurnal motion - - - 59 8*3297783 The motion of the ...
Alexander Tilloch, 1808

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIURNAL MOTION»

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A Bullseye Between Two Eclipses: a Sun/Moon Halo
The daily path of the Sun across the sky (called its diurnal motion) depends on your latitude and the time of year. In the summer it travels higher ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 15»
2
Olympus Stylus SH-2 Ultra-Zoom Digital Camera
By merging only the bright sections of multiple, sequentially-shot images, you can capture beautiful light trails of everything from the diurnal motion of the stars, ... «Buy-n-Shoot.com, Mar 15»
3
Moon between Jupiter and Regulus on March 30
The east-to-west motion of the sun, moon, planets and stars across the sky is referred to as diurnal motion. It's caused by the Earth rotating on ... «EarthSky, Oct 14»
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'Days of Endless Time' at the Hirshhorn examines our need for …
... period making slow, clockwise turns every so often, suggesting that he has remained fixed in his relationship to the earth's diurnal motion. «Washington Post, Oct 14»
5
India Thought Jupiter And Venus Were Actually Chinese Spy Drones
After studying “the planet's diurnal motion and the apparent motion of the object due to the rotation of the Earth”, the first object was Jupiter and ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 13»
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Shocking: Indian Army spots Chinese UFO's only to later realise they …
Jupiter was on its diurnal motion and appeared to be moving because of rotation of the Earth. The other object was Venus that appeared early ... «Daily Bhaskar, Jul 13»
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- Intruders over Ladakh turn out to be two planets
... is Jupiter as the observations coincide with the planet's diurnal motion and the apparent motion of the object due to the rotation of the Earth. «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 13»
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The Martian Chroniclers
He vaguely remembered something about diurnal motion—the circling of stars overhead in relation to the Earth's rotation. But he'd never taken ... «New Yorker, Apr 13»
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Today's Earth Day Google Doodle: Cute, But Scientifically Inaccurate
On top of the motion due to the Earth's spin (called diurnal motion), which makes the moon, sun, and stars move east to west, the moon is ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 13»
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Star Walk 6.0 (for iPad)
... or hours shows the diurnal motion of the heavens around the celestial poles as the Earth rotates, as well as the motion of satellites across the ... «PC Magazine, Sep 12»

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