transit

noun

• 1the carrying of people or things from one place to another:a painting was damaged in transit
• North American the conveyance of passengers on public transport.

• 2the action of passing through or across a place:Guatemala is to have freedom of transit across Belize
• Astronomy the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet: the transits of Mercury across the sun’s disc
• Astronomy the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
• Astrology the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.

verb (transits, transiting, transited)

• pass across or through (an area):the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal
• Astronomy (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian): at the end of February Jupiter transits the meridian
• Astrology (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).