A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod.

synonym: theodolite.

Roget 264: motion, movement, move; going etc. v.; unrest.    stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis.    step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey etc. 266; voyage etc. 267; transit etc. 270.    restlessness etc. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.    ... show more

Dutch: theodoliet, doorvoer, transitogoederen
Polish: teodolit

A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods.

synonyms: transportation, transportation system.

Roget 144: conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation; development [Biol.], developing.    [photography] [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency; exchange rate; bureau de change.    chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.    passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting etc. v.; phase; conjugation; convertibility.    crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.    convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.    ... show more

Roget 270: transfer, transference; translocation, elocation^†; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion^†, amotion^†; relegation; deportation, asportation^†; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer etc. (of property) 783.    transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage^†, carting, cartage; shoveling etc. v.; vection^†, vecture^†, vectitation^†; shipment, freight, wafture^†; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption^†, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion etc. 73; transposition etc. (interchange) 148; traction etc. 285.    [Thing transferred] drift.    ... show more

Dutch: doortocht
Polish: tranzyt

A journey usually by ship.

synonym: passage.

Dutch: doorvaart, doorvoer, passage, transitogoederen

Make a passage or journey from one place to another.

synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through.

Pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place).

Revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.

Cause or enable to pass through.