英语词汇“transit circle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

transit /tranˈzit, tränˈ, -sit/

noun

The conveyance or passage of things or people over, across or through a distance

A route

Passenger transport (esp US)

The apparent passage of a heavenly body over the meridian (astronomy)

The apparent passage of a smaller planet, etc over the disc of a greater (astronomy)

The passage of a planet across some particular region or point on the zodiac (astrology)

A transit circle, transit instrument, or transit theodolite

intransitive verb

To pass across

transitive verb

To pass across

To reverse

ORIGIN: L trānsitus, -ūs, from īre, itum, to go

transˈitable adjective

transit camp noun

A camp where eg refugees, immigrants, soldiers, etc are temporarily accommodated before travelling on to a further destination

transit circle noun

A transit instrument with a graduated circle for declinations

transit duty noun

A duty chargeable on goods passing through a country

transit instrument noun

A telescope mounted in the meridian and turned on a fixed east and west axis

transit lounge noun

A lounge for transit passengers at an airport

transit passenger noun

A passenger stopping briefly at an airport between flights

transit theodolite noun (surveying)

One whose telescope can be reversed

transit trade noun

The trade of carrying foreign goods through a country

transit visa noun

One allowing only transit through a country and not residence

in transit

(of goods, etc) in the process of being transported from one place to another