transit

Meaning

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
2. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
3. The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
4. The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
5. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
6. An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
7. A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
8. Public transport.

pass across

move through

transportation system

meridian passage

passing through

transportation facilities

transit instrument

birle

meridian instrument

meridian transit

pass the frontier

astronomical transit

pass in transit

convey in transit

drive around

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹæn.zɪt/

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

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