1) Astronomical event 2) Buses and trains 3) Conveyance 4) Faber and Faber book 5) Freight journey 6) It may be rapid 7) Jazz album by American artist 8) Kind of visa 9) Mass or rapid follower 10) MTA part 11) Pass across 12) Passage 13) Passage of goods or people 14) Passage through 15) Rapid trailer
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1) Passage 2) Tacheometer 3) Tachymeter 4) Telferage 5) Telpherage 6) Theodolite 7) Transportation
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is an astronomical event where a object passes across the face of a much larger body. An example of this event is the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun in 2004. Because a transit results in a decrease in the net luminosity from the two objects, the transit method is used to detect extrasolar planets as they pass in front of their host sta...
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Passage of a celestial body across the meridian.
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• (n.) The act of passing; passage through or over. • (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor`s transit. • (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun`s disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk...
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an act, process, or instance of passing or journeying across, through, or over.
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any of the first series of U.S. navigation satellites. Launched by the U.S. Navy in 1960–61, the Transit satellites were developed to provide an ... [2 related articles]
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(from the article `theodolite`) ...a tripod with adjustable legs, the theodolite is used in the field to obtain precise angular measurements for triangulation in road building, ...
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in astronomy, the passage of a relatively small body across the disk of a larger body, usually the Sun or a planet, occulting only a very small area. ... [5 related articles]
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Transit 1B The first and longest-running series of navigational satellites. Transits enabled nuclear submarines and surface vessels of the United States Navy to fix their position at sea, to within 150 meters in the early days of the system and to within 25 m later. The first successful Transit...
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A baring line used to guide a boat through a channel.
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1) pertaining to traffic in a network, to indicate that the sources generating the traffic and the destinations of the traffic are located outside this network 2) pertaining to an exchange or a switching centre used primarily as a switching point for traffic between other exchanges
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(1). The passage of a body across the observer's meridian. (2). The passage of Mercury or Venus across the face of the Sun.
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The movement of goods from one European Union member state to another without the need to 'enter' them to a Customs procedure.
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Two or more objects observed in line. Used for navigation.
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A surveyor`s instrument used by builders to establish points and elevations both vertically and horizontally. It can be used to line up stakes or to plumb walls or to measure the angle of elevation from a horizontal plane.
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An act, process or instance of passing or journeying across, through or over. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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For technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications website.
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The apparent journey of Mercury or Venus across the Sun's disc, or of a planet's moon across the disc of its parent.
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The movement of a celestial body across another, from the viewpoint of an observer.
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The passage of a celestial body across an observer's meridian; also the passage of a celestial body across the disk of a larger one.
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When Mercury or Venus crosses the disk of the Sun, making the planet visible as a black dot in silhouette, or when a moon passes across the face of its parent planet. Transit also refers to the instant when a celestial object crosses the meridian and thus is highest in the sky.
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v] - make a transit 2. [v] - astronomy: pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) 3. [v] - revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction 4. [v] - cause or enable to pass through
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acronym: Satellite Navigation (position location) System (U.S.)
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In astronomy, passage of a smaller object across the visible disc of a larger one. Transits of the inferior planets occur when they pass directly between the Earth and the Sun, and are seen as tiny dark spots against the Sun's disc. Other forms of transit include the passage of a satellite or its...
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