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What is a nocturn?

What is a nocturn? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Christianity) The night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours, such as is performed in monasteries.
  2. (Christianity) A portion of the psalter used during nocturns.
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The newly launched camera model offers GigE VisionA functionality into its NOCTURN line of products.
In the 1519 Breviarium Romanum it was the ninth lesson of the third nocturn.
The elders did not observe the nocturn that night until prime on the morrow.
After the repetition of the Antiphon at the end of the last Psalm of a Nocturn, is said the appropriate Versicle and Respond according to the Office of the Day.
The contessa's reception began at the first nocturn, between sunset and midnight.
It was to be lighted again by one of the novices appointed for the purpose during the last psalm of each nocturn.

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