单词 | transiter |
释义 | transitern. rare. 1. A person or thing passing through a particular place or area. ΚΠ 1841 A. B. Granville Spas Eng.: Northern Spas xxii. 334 Those few whom I met the preceding evening..most of whom were mere transiters from the south. 2005 Cruising World Aug. 66/4 The ACP [sc. Autoridad de Canal de Panama] has recently been prohibiting two-day transiters from stopping overnight at PCM [sc. Pedro Miguel Boat Club]. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > transit instrument > [noun] > part transit clock1767 transiter1902 1902 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 41 200 The ‘electrical transiter’, or more simply ‘transiter’, as for brevity the new device has been named, was mounted on the small meridian circle of the Philadelphia Observatory in February, 1901. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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