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Transit   /trˈænzɪt/   Listen
Transit

noun
1.
A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod.  Synonym: theodolite.
2.
A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods.  Synonyms: transportation, transportation system.
3.
A journey usually by ship.  Synonym: passage.
verb
1.
Make a passage or journey from one place to another.  Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through.  "Some travelers pass through the desert"
2.
Pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place).
3.
Revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.
4.
Cause or enable to pass through.



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"Transit" Quotes from Famous Books



... lately been much improved, as several gentlemen of the island have taken up their residence at the New House. In the vicinity of Longwood are many beautiful and romantic scenes. About a mile from thence is Halley's Mount, from which that great astronomer observed the transit of Venus. It is but too true that Napoleon's parlour is now occupied by ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, - Issue 553, June 23, 1832 • Various
... intents and purposes, and notwithstanding the functions of the Governor-General and the unity flowing from the control of the British Crown—these Provinces, isolated for want of the means of rapid transit, were countries as separate in every relation of business, or of the associations of life, as Belgium and Holland, or Switzerland and Italy. The associations of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were far more intimate with the United States than with Canada; ...
— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin
... bright surveyor already," Tom declared. "He has been keeping mum about it, but Harry can go out into the country with a transit and run up the field notes for a map about as handily as the next ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock
... made himself presentable and knocked at Angela's door. He found her clad for the journey, and several bags ready for transit. He thought, too, she seemed delighted at the prospects—delighted when his heart ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild
... in her sitting-room with Old Jimmie and Miss Grierson—and of that dinner, mediocre and sloppy, and chilled by its transit of twelve stories from the kitchen, Miss Grierson, by way of an introductory lesson, made an august function, almost diagrammatic in its educational details. After the dinner, with Miss Grierson's slow and formal aid, which ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott


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