Meaning of transit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something
2. A Ford Transit van.
   British
3. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
   countable, uncountable
4. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance
5. To make a transit.
6. 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
7. 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
8. To go across:cross, pass, track, traverse.
9. 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
10. The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body
11. the carrying or movement of goods, passengers etc from place to place. The goods have been lost in transit. vervoer مُرور، إنْتِقال превоз trânsito přeprava der Transport transit μεταφορά, διαμετακόμιση tránsito, paso, viaje -vedu, transiit ترانزیت؛ حمل kuljetus transit לְהַעֲבִיר पारगमन tranzit, prijelaz tranzit pemindahan flutningur trasporto 輸送 ���송 pervežimas, tranzitas tranzīts; pārvadājumi pengangkutan vervoergjennomreise, transitt, transportprzewóz, tranzyt لیږدول، ټرانزیت trânsito tra...
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12. 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
13. 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
14. The act of passing over, across, or through; passage.
15. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
    countable, uncountable
16. Conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a local public transportation system.
17. 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
18. A transition or change, as to a spiritual existence at death.
19. A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
    Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable
20. Astronomy a. The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian.
    Astronomy
21. A surveying instrument similar to a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
22. To pass over, across, or through: aircraft transiting the United States and Canada.
23. Astronomy To make a transit across (a celestial body as perceived by an observer), as a planet passing between the sun and Earth.
    Astronomy

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Examples

“In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.”

“In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.”

“Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.”

“the transit of goods through a country”

“I always take transit to work.”

“Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.”

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