transit
IPA: trˈænzɪt
noun
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- (Britain) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
- (Canada, US) Public transport system.
- (Britain) a Ford Transit van.
verb
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
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Examples of "transit" in Sentences
- The transition period was chaotic.
- The transition to the neck is gradual.
- Cronyism also undermined the transition.
- How calamitous might this transition be
- The 20th century was a transitional period.
- The Eocene provides the transitional forms.
- In this case, the atom undergoes the transition.
- The items in the categories are transit systems.
- The remainder of the keynote discussed the transition.
- It is the nature of the beast that there is a transitional period.