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transit Definition

transit (trans′it, tranz′it)

noun

    1. passage through or across
    2. a transition; change
    1. a carrying or being carried through or across; conveyance goods in transit
    2. a system of public transportation, esp. in a city
  3. a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal angles, a kind of theodolite
  4. Astron.
    1. the apparent passage of a celestial body across a given meridian or through the field of a telescope
    2. the apparent passage of a smaller celestial body across the disk of a larger one, as of Mercury across the sun

Etymology: ME transite < L transitus, pp. of transire < trans-, trans- + ire, to go: see year

transitive verb

  1. to make a transit through or across
  2. to revolve (the telescope of a transit) so as to reverse its direction

intransitive verb

to make a transit, or passage

transit Synonyms

transit

n.

  1. Passage

    transition, transference, conveyance, transportation, permeation, infiltration, penetration, osmosis.

  2. An engineer's telescope

    surveyor's instrument, theodolite, transit theodolite, gauge, lookstick*; see also telescope.

transit Usage Examples

Object

  • Pluto: For me, when transiting Pluto exactly squared my natal ascendent ( and transited my fourth house ) my marriage began to break up.

Converse of object

  • observe: Used by His Majesty King George III to observe the 1769 transit of Venus.

Adjective modifier

  • uphill: Uphill transit from the skiing resorts is provided by a tracked snowcat with warm, comfy seating.
  • onward: The charter will then travel to Paris, pick up more young failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan in France for onward transit to Kabul.
  • planetary: A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940 ( Hood et al.
  • rapid: We can have ultra light elevated transit systems ( personal rapid transit ) with lightweight vehicles.
  • mass: Electric cars are a nice idea, but they won't work for mass transit or cargo.

Modifies a noun

  • van: The police believe they may have traced a white transit van seen by her brother driving away down a country lane.
  • gloria: But " Sic transit gloria " when cables and satellites came on the scene the HF systems closed down one by one.
  • visa: Can I use my visitor in transit visa more than once?
  • mundi: Sic transit gloria mundi The biggest change in Rome, and the one that'll divide opinion, is the campaign map.
  • peptide: Proteins; Ligands; Heme; ChloroP prediction server ChloroP is a neural network-based method for predicting chloroplast transit peptides and their cleavage sites.
  • camp: The second element of the response is the search for more suitable accommodation beyond transit camps.

Noun used with modifier

  • chloroplast: Proteins; Ligands; Heme; ChloroP prediction server ChloroP is a neural network-based method for predicting chloroplast transit peptides and their cleavage sites.
  • airside: Passengers holding a direct airside transit visa will not be able to pass through immigration control.
  • Pluto: I know what you mean by the Pluto transit thing.
  • gut: Secondly an increased gut transit time means that toxins normally confined to the small bowel can irritate and inflame the more sensitive colonic mucosa.
  • mass: But none of these removed the need for a new mass transit link to serve the new business district.

Preposition: without

  • visa: Transiting without visa ( TWOV ) Transiting without visa may be permitted, when specific conditions are met.

Preposition: of

  • planet: This time inferior conjunction also sees a transit of the planet across the Sun's disk.