EGAVE

transit

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 6.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of passing over, across, or through something.
  2. noun The 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. noun 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
    I always take transit to work.
  4. noun The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun A 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.

Similar words

pass through pass over transportation theodolite passage pass across transportation system through move pass

Often followed by

of time and system to authority systems through is

Word family

transited transiting transition transitional transitions transitory transits

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