Definition of transit
1a (1) : conveyance of persons or things from one place to another (2) : usually local transportation especially of people by public conveyance; also : vehicles or a system engaged in such transportationb : an act, process, or instance of passing through or overc : change, transition
2a : passage of a celestial body over the meridian of a place or through the field of a telescopeb : passage of a smaller body (such as Venus) across the disk of a larger (such as the sun)
3 : a theodolite with the telescope mounted so that it can be transited
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Examples of transit in a Sentence
the problems of urban transit
Origin and Etymology of transit
Middle English transite, from Latin transitus, from transire to go across, pass
First Known Use: 15th century
transit
Definition of transit
intransitive verb
: to make a transit
transitive verb
1a : to pass over or throughb : to cause to pass over or through
2 : to pass across (a meridian, a celestial body, or the field of view of a telescope)
3 : to turn (a telescope) over about the horizontal transverse axis in surveying
Examples of transit in a Sentence
once you transit that stretch of dense woods, the hiking should be much easier
15th Century
First Known Use of transit
15th century
TRANSIT Defined for English Language Learners
transit
playDefinition of transit for English Language Learners
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: the act of moving people or things from one place to another
TRANSIT Defined for Kids
transit
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1 : the act of passing through or across the transit of a satellite's signals
2 : the act or method of carrying things from one place to another The goods were lost in transit.
3 : local transportation of people in public vehicles
4 : a surveyor's instrument for measuring angles
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