SkyfireDict

transit   (TTS Sound)

The noun transit has 3 senses

• theodolite, transit -- (a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod)


• transportation system, transportation, transit -- (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)


• passage, transit -- (a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days")

The verb transit has 4 senses

• transit, pass through, move through, pass across, pass over -- (make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;" "Some travelers pass through the desert")


• transit -- (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")


• transit -- (revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction)


• transit -- (cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day")