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   Tran·sit

   /ˈtranzət/

   

   noun

   • 1. the carrying of people, goods, or materials from one place to another: "a painting was damaged in transit"
   • ▪ the conveyance of passengers on public transportation. North American
   • 2. an act of passing through or across a place: "the first west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage"
   • ▪ the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet: "the transits of Mercury across the sun's disc"
   • ▪ the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
   • ▪ the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.
   • 3. a tool used by surveyors to measure horizontal angles. informal

   verb

   • 1. pass across or through (an area): "the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal"
   • ▪ (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (a meridian or the face of another body): "at the end of February Jupiter transits the meridian"
   • ▪ (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire ‘go across’.

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   The meaning of TRANSIT is conveyance of persons or things from one place to another. How to use transit in a sentence.

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   transit definition: 1. the movement of goods or people from one place to another: 2. to pass through or across a…. Learn more.

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   Transit definition: the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another. See examples of TRANSIT used in a sentence.

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › transittransit | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   transit meaning: 1. the movement of goods or people from one place to another: 2. to pass through or across a…. Learn more.

6. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › transitTransit - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Transit means “journey,” and saying you’re "in transit " means you’re on your way somewhere. Before we had cell phones, one of the upsides of being in transit was that no one could get in touch with you. Transit may be familiar to you from the phrase mass transit.

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTRANSIT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   2 days ago · Transit is the carrying of goods or people by vehicle from one place to another.

8. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definitiontransit noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...

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   Definition of transit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.