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Meaning of 'transit' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Transit [ n.]
- The act of passing; passage through or over.
- The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
- A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
- The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
- The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
- An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
2 . Transit [ v. t.]
- To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Meaning of 'transit' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . transit [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a journey usually by ship
Example in sentence:
  • the outward passage took 10 days
2 . transit [ v]
Meaning (2):
- make a passage or journey from one place to another
Example in sentence:
  • Some travelers pass through the desert;
  • The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs
Meaning (3):
- cause or enable to pass through
Example in sentence:
  • The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day
Meaning (4):
- pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
Example in sentence:
  • The comet will transit on September 11

Nearby Words:

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