The precise culmination of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place.
·noun The act of passing; passage through or over. II. Transit ·vt To pass over the disk of (a heav...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A telescope fitted with vertical wires, and revolving on an axis in the plane of the meridian, with ...
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...