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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Daily; diurnal.

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  • Just how the election process anneals is a black mystery -- at least, to those people who aren't party to the workings of the Festival Committee, the group who first had the idea of paving Saturn with hot-hydrogen balloons -- but over the course of a complete diurn, almost forty thousand seconds, a pattern begins to emerge.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

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