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  • verb Present participle of transit.

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Examples

  • If arctic sea ice melts, shipping traffic will begin transiting the North Pole.

    Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins? 2007

  • If arctic sea ice melts, shipping traffic will begin transiting the North Pole.

    Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins? 2007

  • The payment to U.S. carriers for calls transiting the United States from Iraq in 2005 (the latest available data) was in any case only $198.

    Robert Davey: FISA Follies 2008

  • HD 149026b is what is known as a transiting planet, which means that it crosses in front of and passes behind its star†"the secondary eclipseâ€" when viewed from Earth.

    Image Gallery 2010

  • In a scientific paper to be published later this year, Mr Apps will be credited with discovering a rare type of astronomical object, known as a transiting Brown Dwarf - small, dim stars that orbit around another much larger star.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • That movement across the star's face is called transiting, and the changes in the star's light can reveal the planet's size.

    SFGate: Top News Stories David Perlman 2010

  • That movement across the star's face is called transiting, and the changes in the star's light can reveal the planet's size.

    SFGate: Top News Stories David Perlman 2010

  • That movement across the star's face is called transiting, and the changes in the star's light can reveal the planet's size.

    ScrippsNews 2009

  • Kepler mission is using similar "transiting" to search for Earth-size planets in one small section of the sky.

    Scientists estimate tens of billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way Marc Kaufman 2010

  • • NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers planetary system with 'transiting' planets: The discovery came from observing some 156,000 stars for seven months as part of a pioneering search for Earth-sized planets outside our solar system.

    New statistics on disabled workers 2010

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