Meanings of diurnal motion in English

The diurnal motion prevents these currents running in straight lines.

We know some of the agents-thediurnal motion of the earth, and the sun's heating rays.

The silence was broken only by the ticking of the clock-work which gave diurnal motion to the instrument.

Unless we deny the astronomic measures, and the most convincing geometric operations, the Earth's diurnal motion of rotation is a certainty.

Of the former they have no measure but the visible diurnal motion of the sun or the monthly revolution of the moon.

One said that the brightness of the dawn- afacteasily explained by the diurnal motion of the globe-showed him that his soul was immortal.

Suppose the globe at rest, and covered with one uniform stagnant mass of atmosphere; suddenly heat, cold, and the diurnal motion commence their operations.

The diurnal motion of the globe will account for the drift-wood and sea-weed being cast off on the east or left bank of the stream.

When mounted in this way, an object can be followed in its diurnal motion from east to west by turning on the polar axis alone.

Posidonius constructed an orrery, which exhibited the diurnal motions of the sun, moon, and five planets.