Sentence examples for called transit from inspiring English sources

A polar-orbiting satellite system called Transit was established in the early 1960s by the United States to provide global coverage for ships at sea.

To celebrate its 160th anniversary, the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark has mounted an exhibition called "Transit Drivers, Honeymooners, Midwives: Collecting and Telling New Jersey Stories".

Berlin's public transport system has had a standardised signage typeface called "Transit" in use since the mid-90s, but its application is erratic.

He has produced records for the '50s rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson; the Detroit shock rappers Insane Clown Posse; a band called Transit, made up of employees of the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Frank McClure, then chairman of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, saw the navigational possibilities of using the Doppler shift from a satellite to locate a receiver on earth.The following year, with money from the Pentagon, scientists at APL began to develop a satellite navigation system called Transit.

The officials said that while the president had not made a final decision on the future of the two programs, he was likely to heed the advice and temporarily suspend or severely restrict the programs, one called Transit Without Visa, the other International-to-International.

These passes are called transits.

-- Michael Butler, Tampa, Fla .A. Numerous tour operators offer full- or half-day (partial) crossings, which are commonly called transits, but only one place from which to board -- the piers at Balboa Harbor in Panama City.

Operating in a complete different way, working on the land use characteristics (Table 2), thus removing the 11 feeder services corridors and realizing the so called "transit-villages" around some metro lines stops, does not produce considerable variation in the modal share.

As exciting as the plans for direct imaging are, most exoplanets are still found using indirect techniques – such as detecting a wobble in the position of the star that indicates it is being pulled slightly towards an orbiting planet, or a method called "transiting", in which planets are identified by the tiny dip in brightness caused when they pass in front of its star.

Scientists using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) and other ground-based tools spied the alien planet as it passed in front of its star, a process called transiting.