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The time required for electrons to travel between two electrodes in a vacuum tube.
Such time is extremely important in tubes designed for ultrahigh frequencies.
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Sic transit gloria mundi. (Latin motto)
Translation: "So passes away the glory of the world."
This motto was used by Thomas à Kempis, in his De Imitatione Christi, when he was commenting about the transitory nature of human vanities. It is also used at the coronation of a pope: A rope bundle is burned during the ceremony and, as the flame dies, the words Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi: "Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world" are intoned.
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1. The crossing of a small celestial body in front of a larger one.
Venus and Mercury are in transit across the disk of the sun when seen from the earth.
2. The passage across the observer's meridian of a celestial body, or the crossing of the face of one body; for example, the sun, by the path of another; for example, Mercury or Venus, from the observer's viewpoint.
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Sic transit gloria mundi.
Thus passes away the glory of this world.
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Graveyard words for a greater understanding of epitaphs
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