transit
tran zit
- n a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
- n a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
- n a journey usually by ship
- v make a passage or journey from one place to another
- v 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 - v revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
- v cause or enable to pass through
The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day
- Pressure builds on strikers and politicians on a second freezing day without mass transit.
- How to view the transit safely.
- Most states consistently favor roads over mass transit, building new roads over repairing old ones and building those new roads in rural rather than metropolitan areas.