transit

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

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
a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal angles, a kind of theodolite
in full transit theodolite
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

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

transitive verb

intransitive verb

to make a transit, or passage

See transit in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The act of passing over, across, or through; passage.
a. Conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a local public transportation system.
b. The system or vehicles used for such conveyance.
A transition or change, as to a spiritual existence at death.
Astronomy
a. The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian.
b. The passage of a smaller celestial body or its shadow across the disk of a larger celestial body.
A surveying instrument similar to a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.

verb tran·sit·ed, tran·sit·ing, tran·sits

verb, transitive

To pass over, across, or through: aircraft transiting the United States and Canada.
To revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.

verb, intransitive
Astronomy

To make a transit.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English transite

Origin: , from Latin trānsitus

Origin: , from past participle of trānsīre, to go across; see transient

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