transit

(n) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod theodolite,
(n) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods transportation, transportation system,
(n) a journey usually by ship
- the outward passage took 10 days
passage,

(v) make a passage or journey from one place to another
- The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs
- Some travelers pass through the desert
move through, pass across, pass through, pass over,
(v) 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
(v) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
(v) cause or enable to pass through
- The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day

move through pass across pass through pass over theodolite transportation transportation system passage

transom

transit declinometer transit instrument transition transitional transitionally transitive transitively transitiveness transitive verb transitive verb form transitivise transitivity transitivize transit line transitorily transitoriness transitory transit zone