TRANSIT
\tɹˈansɪt], \tɹˈansɪt], \t_ɹ_ˈa_n_s_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of TRANSIT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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make a transit
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facility consisting of the roads and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
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cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
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revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
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astronomy: 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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
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revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
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a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
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make a passage or journey from one place to another
By Princeton University
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The act of passing; passage through or over.
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The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
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A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
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The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
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The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
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To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
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An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; - called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
By Oddity Software
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The act of passing; passage through or over.
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The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
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A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
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The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
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The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
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To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
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An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; - called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
By Noah Webster.
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A passage through or over; conveyance; the passage of a heavenly body across the sun; an instrument used in surveying to measure angles: called in full a transit theodolite.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A passing over: conveyance: passage, as of freight, on railways and steamboats: rapid transit, the speedy transportation of passengers to and from their residences, in large and crowded cities; elevated and underground railroads are the chief means of rapid transit at present: (astr.) the passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place: the passage of a planet over the sun's disc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act of passing over or through; passage; especially, the passage of one heavenly body over the disk of another, or over the meridian.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Act of passing; passage through or over; act or process of causing to pass; conveyance;- a line of passage or conveyance through a country;- the passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope;-the passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Mercury or Venus across the sun's disk;-a transit-instrument.
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