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I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Latin ~us, from transire to go across, pass Date: 15th century 1. an act, process, or instance of passing through or over ; passage , change , ~ion , c. conveyance of persons or things from one place to another, usually local transportation especially of people by public conveyance, 2. passage of a celestial body over the meridian of a place or through the field of a telescope, passage of a smaller body (as Venus) across the disk of a larger (as the sun), a theodolite with the telescope mounted so that it can be ~ed, II. verb Date: 15th century in~ive verb to make a ~, ~ive verb 1. to pass over or through ; traverse , to cause to pass over or through, to pass across (a meridian, a celestial body, or the field of view of a telescope), to turn (a telescope) over about the horizontal transverse axis in surveying