Definition of: journal

(jûr′nəl) noun
1. A record of daily occurrences of personal interest; a diary.
2. An official record of the daily proceedings of a leg islature or other deliberative body.
3. A periodical recording news or other events of current interest.
4. A daily chronicle of a voyage.
5. Naut. A log or logbook.
6. In bookkeeping: a A daybook. b In double entry, a book in which transactions of the day are entered in systematic form, either as original entries or as transfers from the daybook, in order to facilitate later posting in the ledger.
7. Mech. That part of a shaft or axle which rotates in or against a bearing. [<OF <L diurnalis. Doublet of DIURNAL.]
JOURNAL (def. 7)
a. Journal. b. Bearing.