passage
transit | a journey usually by ship, the outward passage tookdays |
rotation
rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
| surveying | the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map, he studied surveying at college |
| astronomical telescope | any telescope designed to collect and record electromagnetic radiation from cosmic sources |
axis
axis of rotation | the center around which something rotates |
Cassegrainian telescope
Gregorian telescope | a reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror, light is brought to a focus through an aperture in the center of the primary mirror |
coude telescope
coude system | a reflecting telescope so constructed that the light is led to a plate holder or spectrograph |
declinometer
transit declinometer | an instrument for measuring magnetic declination |
| Galilean telescope | a type of refracting telescope that is no longer used in astronomy |
Herschelian telescope
off-axis reflector | a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed |
| Maksutov telescope | reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens |
Newtonian telescope
Newtonian reflector | reflecting telescope in which the image is viewed through an eyepiece perpendicular to main axis |
| optical telescope | an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources |
| public transit | a public transportation system for moving passengers |
radio telescope
radio reflector | astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources |
rapid transit
mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
reflecting telescope
reflector | optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece, Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in |
| refracting telescope | optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece |
Schmidt telescope
Schmidt camera | reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed |
| solar telescope | a telescope designed to make observations of the sun |
surveying instrument
surveyor's instrument | an instrument used by surveyors |
telescope
scope | a magnifier of images of distant objects |
telescopic sight
telescope sight | gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight |
theodolite
transit | a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod |
| transit instrument | a telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian |
| transit line | a line providing public transit |
transportation system
transportation
transit | a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods |
| rotation | a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.), crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil, the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation |
bank identification number
BIN
ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
rotation
revolution
gyration | a single complete turn (axial or orbital), the plane made three rotations before it crashed, the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year |
dextrorotation
clockwise rotation | rotation to the right |
levorotation
counterclockwise rotation | rotation to the left |
axial rotation
axial motion
roll | rotary motion of an object around its own axis, wheels in axial rotation |
orbital rotation
orbital motion | motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point, satellites in orbital rotation |
| transit zone | a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean, includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers |
| rotation | (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin |
| telescope | make smaller or shorter, the novel was telescoped into a short play |
| telescope | crush together or collapse, In the accident, the cars telescoped, my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack |
| transit | cause or enable to pass through, The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day |
| transit | revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction |
| transit | pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place), The comet will transit on September |
transit
pass through
move through
pass across
pass over | make a passage or journey from one place to another, The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs, Some travelers pass through the desert |