Transit is a passage or transition through or across, or public transportation.
(noun)Transit is defined as to pass through or to reverse direction.
(verb)An example of transit is to pass through a mountainside in your car.
See transit in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME transite < L transitus, pp. of transire < trans-, trans- + ire, to go: see year
transitive verb
intransitive verb
See transit in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English transite
Origin: , from Latin trānsitus
Origin: , from past participle of trānsīre, to go across; see transient
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