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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.] |
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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