Found 2 items, similar to Journal box.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: journal box
journal box
n : metal housing for a journal bearing
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Journal box
Journal
\Jour"nal\, n. [F. journal. See
Journal, a.]
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1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
Specifically:
(a) (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered
a condensed and grouped statement of the daily
transactions.
(b) (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and
distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage,
etc.
(c) (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by
the clerk.
(d) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly
newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an
account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs
of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine.
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2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel;
a day's journey. [Obs. & R.] --B. Jonson.
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3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft,
axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See
Illust. of
Axle box.
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Journal box, or
Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a
journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or
pin turns.
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