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TRANSIT INSTRUMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("transit instrument" is a kind of...):
scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)
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