Dictionary entries for 'transit'

Synonyms

tran·sit (trăńsĭt, -zĭt)

[Middle English transite, from Latin trānsitus from past participle of trānsīre, to go across; see transient.]

noun

The act of passing over, across, or through; passage.
1. Conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a local public transportation system.
2. The system or vehicles used for such conveyance.
A transition or change, as to a spiritual existence at death.
Astronomy
1. The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian.
2. 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.

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.