Transilience to Transmuter
Transilience
(Tran*sil"i*ence Tran*sil"i*en*cy) n. [L. transiliens, p. pr. of transilire to leap across or
over; trans across, over + salire to leap.] A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] "An unadvised
transiliency." Glanvill.
Transire
(||Trans*i"re) n. [L. transire to pass through or across, to pass.] (End. Law) A customhouse
clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.
Transit
(Trans"it) n. [L. transitus, from transire to go over: cf. F. transit. See Transient.]
1. The act of passing; passage through or over.
In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another.
Burke. 2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
3. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit. E. G. Squier.
4. (Astron.) (a) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field
of a telescope. (b) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the
sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
5. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; — called also transit compass,
and surveyor's transit.
The surveyor's transit differs from the theodolite in having the horizontal axis attached directly to the
telescope which is not mounted in Y's and can be turned completely over about the axis.
Lower transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is
below the polar axis. — Surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit circle (Astron.), a
transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing the time of transit and the declination
at one observation. See Circle, n., 3. — Transit compass. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit
duty, a duty paid on goods that pass through a country. — Transit instrument. (Astron.) (a) A
telescope mounted at right angles to a horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation
in the plane of the meridian, — used in connection with a clock for observing the time of transit of a
heavenly body over the meridian of a place. (b) (Surv.) A surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above.
— Transit trade (Com.), the business conected with the passage of goods through a country to their
destination. — Upper transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian
which is above the polar axis.
Transit
(Trans"it), v. t. (Astron.) To pass over the disk of
Transition
(Tran*si"tion) n. [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]
1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
There is no death, what seems so is transition.
Longfellow. 2. (Mus.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
3. (Rhet.) A passing from one subject to another.
[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.
Milton. 4. (Biol.) Change from one form to another.
