A telescope fitted with vertical wires, and revolving on an axis in the plane of the meridian, with which the time may be obtained by observing the passage of the stars and planets compared with their computed time.
·noun A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument. I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A term of extensive application among tools and weapons; but it is here introduced as an official co...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The act of passing; passage through or over. II. Transit ·vt To pass over the disk of (a heav...
The precise culmination of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place. ...
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo. ...
The passage of a circumpolar star over the meridian above the pole; the opposite of the lower transi...
These planets being situated between the sun and the earth, occasionally appear to us to pass over h...
The Y-shaped bearings for the telescope axis, on the precision of which the value of an astronomical...