transit
noun
1. a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
Similar word(s): theodolite
Definition categories: man–made
2. a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
Similar word(s): transportation
Definition categories: man–made, facility, installation
3. a journey usually by ship
Similar word(s): passage
Definition categories: act, journey, journeying
Sentences with transit as a noun:
- the transit of goods through a country
verb
1. make a passage or journey from one place to another
- Some travelers pass through the desert
Definition categories: motion, pass
2. 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
Definition categories: motion, pass
3. revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
Definition categories: motion, revolve, roll
4. cause or enable to pass through
- The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day