the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.

conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods, esp., local public transportation

city transit. Compare mass transit

a transition or change.

Astronomy .

the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope.

the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary.

meridian circle.

Astrology . the passage of a planet in aspect to another planet or a specific point in a horoscope.

Surveying .

Also called transit instrument. an instrument, as a theodolite, having a telescope that can be transited, used for measuring horizontal and sometimes vertical angles.

a repeating transit theodolite.

( initial capital letter ) U.S. Aerospace . one of a series of satellites for providing positional data to ships and aircraft.

to pass across or through.

Surveying . to turn (the telescope of a transit) in a vertical plane in order to reverse direction; plunge.

Astronomy . to cross (a meridian, celestial body, etc.).

to pass over or through something; make a transit.

Astronomy . to make a transit across a meridian, celestial body, etc.

noun

alteration , carriage , carrying , conveyance , crossing , infiltration , motion , movement , osmosis , passage , penetration , permeation , portage , shift , shipment , transfer , transference , transport , transporting , travel , traverse , change , journey , transportation

verb

pass , track , traverse