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Transit
//ˈtɹæn.zət// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of passing over, across, or through something. countable, uncountable
"In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another."
- 2 A Ford Transit van. British
- 3 a journey usually by ship wordnet
- 4 The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance. countable, uncountable
"the transit of goods through a country"
- 5 a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod wordnet
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- 6 Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit Canada, US, countable, uncountable
"I always take transit to work."
- 7 a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods wordnet
- 8 The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body. countable, uncountable
- 9 The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart. countable, uncountable
- 10 A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles. countable, uncountable
- 11 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. countable, uncountable
- 12 A Ford Transit van, see Transit. Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable
"Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel."
Verb
- 1 To pass over, across or through something.
- 2 cause or enable to pass through wordnet
- 3 To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- 4 revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction wordnet
- 5 To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
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- 6 pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) wordnet
- 7 To make a transit. intransitive
- 8 make a passage or journey from one place to another wordnet
- 9 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. Internet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
Etymology 2
From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
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