TRANSIT INSTRUMENT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian

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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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