Dictionary definition · transit
noun
- a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
- a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
- a journey usually by ship"the outward passage took 10 days"
verb
- make a passage or journey from one place to another"The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs"
- 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"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).