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ˈtransiter rare.
[f. transit n. or v. + -er1.]
Name for a form of the apparatus usually called a ‘recording micrometer’, and attached to the eye-end of a transit telescope.
1902Science (U.S.) 2 May 693/2 The actual arrangement in use at the Philadelphia Observatory, called for brevity a ‘transiter’... The transiter seemed to furnish all the necessary facilities of motion and of recording, and..permitted elimination of all errors excepting that of bisection. |