S: (n) alidade, alidad (surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles)
S: (n) alidade, alidad (surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments)
S: (n) clinometer, inclinometer (an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation)
S: (n) plane table (surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod; used to sight and map topographical details)
S: (n) range pole, ranging pole, flagpole (surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors)
S: (n) surveyor's level (surveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis; for measuring relative heights of land)
S: (n) theodolite, transit (a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod)
S: (n) passage, transit (a journey usually by ship) "the outward passage took 10 days"
Verb
S: (v) 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"
S: (v) 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 11"
S: (v) transit (revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction)