rare. [f. TRANSIT sb. or v. + -ER1.] Name for a form of the apparatus usually called a ‘recording micrometer,’ and attached to the eye-end of a transit telescope.
1902. Science (U.S.), 2 May, 693/2. The actual arrangement in use at the Philadelphia Observatory, called for brevity a ‘transiter.’… The transiter seemed to furnish all the necessary facilities of motion and of recording, and … permitted elimination of all errors excepting that of bisection.
