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| 1. | a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip. |
| 2. | a newspaper, esp. a daily one. |
| 3. | a periodical or magazine, esp. one published for a special group, learned society, or profession: the October issue of The English Journal. |
| 4. | a record, usually daily, of the proceedings and transactions of a legislative body, an organization, etc. |
| 5. | Bookkeeping.
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| 6. | Nautical. a log or logbook. |
| 7. | Machinery. the portion of a shaft or axle contained by a plain bearing. |
| jour·nal (jûr'nəl) n.
[Middle English, breviary, from Old French, daily, breviary, from Late Latin diurnālis, daily; see diurnal.] |
"Journalism will kill you, but it keeps you alive while you're at it." [Horace Greely]Journalist "one whose work is to write or edit public journals or newspapers" is from 1693. Journalese "language typical of newspaper articles or headlines" is from 1882.
journal operating system
An on-going record of transactions, such as database updates, file system writes, procedure calls or message transmissions. A journal differs from a simple log in that the contents of the journal can be used to reconstruct the state of the system after a failure by re-applying the transactions in the journal to a snapshot of the system previous state.
(2008-05-29)
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