transit
transit
Definition
transit (trans′it, tranz′it)
noun
- passage through or across
- a transition; change
- a carrying or being carried through or across; conveyance goods in transit
- a system of public transportation, esp. in a city
- a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal angles, a kind of theodolite
- Astron.
- the apparent passage of a celestial body across a given meridian or through the field of a telescope
- 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
- to make a transit through or across
- 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.
Passage
transition, transference, conveyance, transportation, permeation, infiltration, penetration, osmosis. 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.
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