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- noun Plural form of
transit . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
transit .
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Examples
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See's kaleidoscopic saga transits from the barbaric horrors of Japanese occupation to the sobering indignities suffered by foreigners in 1930s Hollywood while offering a buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.
Shanghai Girls: Summary and book reviews of Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. 2009
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Even in the absence of a direct relationship to these houses (be it the absence of Saturn, Mars, Pluto in the opposition; the planets in opposition not ruling the eighth nor tenth house; planets not resident in Capricorn nor Scorpio) there will still be transits from the planets that do rule over them.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Such a wobble shows up as a change in the time between two transits, which is how long it takes the planet to make one orbit.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The spacecraft looks for starlight dips, or "transits," that occur when a planet passes in front of a star.
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Kepler finds alien planets that pass in front of their host stars, picking up on the tiny brightness dips that occur when such "transits" take place.
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Shelbourn and Johnson estimated there are less than 20 individuals who are chronically homeless, but this doesn't include "transits," or homeless drifters who come through Meridian for a few weeks and then move on to another city or state.
Leader Call Homepage 2010
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A Pandora-type moon could be identified when its planet "transits" across the face of the parent star.
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A Pandora-type moon could be identified when its planet "transits" across the face of the parent star.
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A Pandora-type moon could be identified when its planet "transits" across the face of the parent star.
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A Pandora-type moon could be identified when its planet "transits" across the face of the parent star.
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