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Transit

noun
/ˈtɹæn.sɪt/
Word Frequency: 7.0

Definitions

1.nounThe act of passing over, across, or through something.
2.nounThe conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
"the transit of goods through a country"
3.nounThe passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
4.nounA surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
5.nounAn 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.
6.nounA Ford Transit van, see Transit.
"Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel."
7.nounPublic transport system.
"I always take the transit to work."
8.verbTo pass over, across or through something.
9.verbTo revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
10.verbTo make a transit.
11.verbTo 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.

Synonyms

pass throughpass overtransportationtheodolitepassagepass acrosstransportation systemthroughmovepassmovementtransport

Rhymes With

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