(engineering) A simple bearing in which part of the outer surface of a cylindrical shaft, the “journal”, slides on the inner surface of a cylindrical hole, with no rolling elements.

plural of journal bearing

(publishing) A publishing outlet that poses as a reputable academic journal, but will publish anything submitted for a fee.

A form of journalism in which facts are deemed to be less important than the writer's perception of the underlying truth (especially where deliberately altered consciousness is involved).

A collection of words and images in a diary that chronicles the ideas, memories, and thoughts of an artist.

plural of e-journal

(publishing) An electronic journal, an academic journal published in electronic form.

(US) The practice of journalists of paying a person or organization for the receipt of a news story.

plural of art journal

(derogatory) The use, by journalists, of interviewing methods designed to entrap interviewees into making statements that are damaging or discreditable to themselves.