1. Active movement or transportation from one place to another
   "Goods in transit"; "The transit took several days"
    
2. [N. Amer] The means, equipment, and facilities for moving people or goods
   "The city's transit included buses, trains, and ferries";
   - transportation system, transportation
    
3. Temporary passage through a place or country
   "The visa allowed transit through three countries"; "Passengers in transit must remain in the airport"
    
4. (astronomy) visible passage of a celestial body across an observer's meridian or across another celestial body
   "Venus made its transit across the Sun"
    
5. A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
   "The surveyor used a transit to accurately measure the property boundaries";
   - theodolite

1. Make a passage or journey from one place to another
   "Some travellers transit the desert";
   - pass through, move through, pass across, pass over
    
2. Cause or enable to pass through
   "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
    
3. 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"
    
4. Revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
   "The surveyor transited the instrument to take readings in the opposite direction"

Derived forms: transited, transiting, transits

Type of: bring, convey, facility, installation, pass, revolve, roll, surveying instrument, surveyor's instrument, take

Part of: base, infrastructure

Encyclopedia: Transit