Definition of Transit
Noun: transit trãn-zit or tran(t)-sit
- A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
- theodolite
- A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
- transportation system, transportation
- A journey usually by ship
"the outward transit took 10 days";
- passage
- Make a passage or journey from one place to another
"Some travellers transit the desert";
- pass through, move through, pass across, pass over
- Pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
"The comet will transit on September 11"
- Revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
- Cause or enable to pass through
"The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
See also:
transistors
transited
Anagrams containing the word transit