Transit

English Meaning

The act of passing; passage through or over.

1. The act of passing over, across, or through; passage.
2. Conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a local public transportation system.
3. The system or vehicles used for such conveyance.
4. A transition or change, as to a spiritual existence at death.
5. Astronomy The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian.
6. Astronomy The passage of a smaller celestial body or its shadow across the disk of a larger celestial body.
7. A surveying instrument similar to a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
8. To pass over, across, or through: aircraft transiting the United States and Canada.
9. To revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.
10. Astronomy To make a transit.