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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•sit /ˈtrænsɪt, -zɪt/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- passage from one place to another;
transportation:The airline advised that our clothes were still in transit. - a system of public transportation, esp. in an urban area:mass transit.
v. [no object] - to make a transit.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•sit (tran′sit, -zit),USA pronunciation n., v., -sit•ed, -sit•ing. n. - the act or fact of passing across or through;
passage from one place to another. - Transportconveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods, esp., local public transportation:city transit.Cf. mass transit.
- a transition or change.
- [Astron.]
- the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope.
- the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary.
- See meridian circle.
- Astrologythe passage of a planet in aspect to another planet or a specific point in a horoscope.
- [Survey.]
- Also called transit instrument. an instrument, as a theodolite, having a telescope that can be transited, used for measuring horizontal and sometimes vertical angles.
- a repeating transit theodolite.
- ([cap.]) [U.S. Aerospace.]one of a series of satellites for providing positional data to ships and aircraft.
v.t. - to pass across or through.
- [Survey.]to turn (the telescope of a transit) in a vertical plane in order to reverse direction;
plunge. - [Astron.]to cross (a meridian, celestial body, etc.).
v.i. - to pass over or through something;
make a transit. - [Astron.]to make a transit across a meridian, celestial body, etc.
- Latin trānsitus a going across, passage, equivalent. to trānsi-, variant stem of trānsīre to cross (trāns- trans- + -īre to go) + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action
- late Middle English (noun, nominal and verb, verbal) 1400–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: transit /ˈtrænsɪt ˈtrænz-/ n - the passage or conveyance of goods or people
- (as modifier): a transit visa
- a change or transition
- a route
- the passage of a celestial body or satellite across the face of a relatively larger body as seen from the earth
- the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian, caused by the earth's diurnal rotation
- in transit ⇒ while being conveyed; during passage
vb - to make a transit through or over (something)
Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin transitus a going over, from transīre to pass over; see transient |