MERIDIAN CIRCLE


Meaning of MERIDIAN CIRCLE in English

Astron.

a transit instrument provided with a graduated vertical scale, used to measure the declinations of heavenly bodies and to determine the time of meridian transits. Also called circle, transit circle, transit instrument .

[ 1540-50 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .