transit
Pronunciation: /ˈtransɪt, ˈtrɑːns-, -nz-/
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).
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire 'go across'