transit

plural transits

1. countableuncountableThe act of passing over, across, or through something.

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

   1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC

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   In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.

   1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

   Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 117

2. countableuncountableThe 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

   Synonyms: transport

3. CanadaUScountableuncountableAny 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.

   Synonyms: public transport

4. countableuncountableastronomyThe passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
5. countableuncountableastrologyThe 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.
6. countableuncountableA surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
7. countableuncountablenavigationAn 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.
8. IrelandUKcountableuncountableA 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.

present singular third person transits · participle present transiting · participle past transited · past transited

1. To pass over, across or through something.
2. To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
3. at least VancouverTo use public transit.

   I always transit to work.

4. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
5. intransitiveastronomyTo make a transit.
6. InternetTo 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.

plural Transits

1. UKA Ford Transit van.