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transit.

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

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtɹæn.zɪt/UK, US/ˈtɹæn.sɪt/UK, US/ˈtɹæn.zət//ˈtɹæn.sət/
  1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.

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

    countable · uncountable
    the transit of goods through a country
  3. 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

    Canada · US · countable · uncountable
    I always take transit to work.
  4. The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

    countable · uncountable
  5. The 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.

    countable · uncountable
  6. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.

    countable · uncountable
  7. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  8. A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

    Ireland · UK · countable · uncountable
    Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Latin eō Latin trānsēo Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin trānsituslbor. French transitder. English transit From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

verb/ˈtɹæn.zɪt/UK, US/ˈtɹæn.sɪt/UK, US/ˈtɹæn.zət//ˈtɹæn.sət/
  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. To use public transit.

    I always transit to work.
  4. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.

  5. To make a transit.

    intransitive
  6. 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.

    Internet
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Latin eō Latin trānsēo Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin trānsituslbor. French transitder. English transit From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

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