transit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cause or enable to pass through

   The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day

2. 2
   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

3. 3
   noun

   The act of passing over, across, or through something.

   In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.

4. 4
   noun

   The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

   the transit of goods through a country

5. 5
   noun

   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

   I always take transit to work.

6. 6
   noun

   A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

   Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.

7. 7
   noun

   a journey usually by ship

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).