TRANSIT

passage, transit

(noun) a journey usually by ship; “the outward passage took 10 days”

theodolite, transit

(noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

transit

(verb) cause or enable to pass through; “The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day”

transit

(verb) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

transit

(verb) 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”

transit, pass through, move through, pass across, pass over

(verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another; “The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs”; “Some travelers pass through the desert”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

Transit (plural Transits)

(Britain) a Ford Transit van.

Anagrams

• Tristan, startin', straint

Etymology

Noun

transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)

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 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.

(British) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

(North America) Public transport system.

Verb

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

To pass over, across or through something.

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.

Anagrams

• Tristan, startin', straint

Source: Wiktionary

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Trans"it, n. Etym: [L. transitus, from transire to go over: cf. F. transit. See Transient.]

1. The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke.

2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

3. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit. E. G. Squier.

4. (Astron.) (a) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope. (b) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.

5. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

Note: The surveyor's transit differs from the theodolite in having the horizontal axis attached directly to the telescope which is not mounted in Y's and can be turned completely over about the axis. Lower transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is below the polar axis.

– Surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above.

– Transit circle (Astron.), a transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing the time of transit and the declination at one observation. See Circle, n., 3.

– Transit compass. See Transit, 5, above.

– Transit duty, a duty paid on goods that pass through a country.

– Transit instrument. (Astron.) (a) A telescope mounted at right angles to a horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation in the plane of the meridian, -- used in connection with a clock for observing the time of transit of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place. (b) (Surv.) A surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above.

– Transit trade (Com.), the business conected with the passage of goods through a country to their destination.

– Upper transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is above the polar axis.

Trans"it, v. t. (Astron.)

Definition: To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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