Tran's iently

adv. — Tran's ientne , n. — Tran's it, n. Act of pa ing; pa age through or over; act or proce of causing to pa conveyance; a line of pa age or conveyance through a country. (Astron.) The pa age of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope; the pa age of a smaller body acro the disk of a larger; a transit-instrument. [L. transitu*, a pa ing over, prop. p. p. of transire.] — Tran's it-in's trument, n. A kind of telescope, used in connection with a clock for observing the exact moment when a heavenly body pa es the meridian of the place of ob-ervation a kind of portable theodolite used by surveyors r.nd engineers for measuring longitudinal and vertical angles.— Transition, -sizh'un or -zish'un, n. Pa age from one place or smte to another; chnnge. (Mas.) A pa ing directly from one key to another. (EJiet.) A pa ing from one subject to another. [L. tronsitio.] — Transition al. -sizh'unor -zish'un-. a. Containing, involving, or denoting transition. — Tran's itive, a. Effected by transference am. fame, far, p or opera, fare 6nd, TRANSPARENT of signification. [L. transitivus.] — Transitive verb, (Gram.) A verb which or may be followed by an object.— Transitively, adv.— Tran's itory, -sl-to-rl, a. Continuing only for a short time speedily vanishing or ceasing to be transient fleeting evanes- — cent; short lived. [F. trans i to ire, L. tray is i to rins.]