transit

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) +‎ ire (“to go”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/, /ˈtɹæn.sɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæn.zət/, /ˈtɹæn.sət/
• (UK, now rare) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑːn.zɪt/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ænzɪt

transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

     In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 117:

     Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.

2. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

   Synonym: transport

   the transit of goods through a country

3. (Canada, US) 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

   Synonym: (British English) public transport

   I always take transit to work.

4. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
5. (astrology) 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. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
7. (navigation) 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. (UK, Ireland) 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.

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

1. To pass over, across or through something.
2. To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
3. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
4. (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
5. (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

• “transit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “transit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “transit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• start in, straint, startin', Tristan

Learned borrowing from Latin transitus.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zit/

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transit m (plural transits)

1. transit

   en transit ― in transit

   le transit intestinal ― intestinal transit, bowel transit

• transiter

• “transit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi/

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transit

1. inflection of transir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular past historic

From Dutch transit, from French transit, from Latin trānseō.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtransit/ [ˈt̪ran.sɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ansit
• Syllabification: tran‧sit

transit (plural transit-transit)

1. transit,
   1. (trading) the conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance
   2. (astronomy) the passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body

• transito

• “transit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

transit m (plural transic)

1. transit

trānsit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of trānseō

From Ottoman Turkish ترانسیت (transit), from French transit.

• IPA^(key): /tɾan.sit/

transit (definite accusative transiti, plural transitler)

1. transit