transit

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The precise culmination of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place.

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  • Transit

    ·noun The act of passing; passage through or over. II. Transit ·vt To pass over the disk of (a heav...

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  • lower transit

    The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo. ...

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  • transit instrument

    A telescope fitted with vertical wires, and revolving on an axis in the plane of the meridian, with ...

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  • upper transit

    The passage of a circumpolar star over the meridian above the pole; the opposite of the lower transi...

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  • transit of Venus

    These planets being situated between the sun and the earth, occasionally appear to us to pass over h...

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  • transit of Mercury or Venus

    These planets being situated between the sun and the earth, occasionally appear to us to pass over h...

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