TRANSIT


Meaning of TRANSIT in English

I. ˈtran(t)-sət, ˈtran-zət noun

Etymology: Middle English transite, from Latin transitus, from transire to go across, pass

Date: 15th century

1.

a. : an act, process, or instance of passing through or over : passage

b. : change , transition

c.

(1) : conveyance of persons or things from one place to another

(2) : usually local transportation especially of people by public conveyance ; also : vehicles or a system engaged in such transportation

2.

a. : passage of a celestial body over the meridian of a place or through the field of a telescope

b. : passage of a smaller body (as Venus) across the disk of a larger (as the sun)

3. : a theodolite with the telescope mounted so that it can be transited

II. verb

Date: 15th century

intransitive verb

: to make a transit

transitive verb

1.

a. : to pass over or through : traverse

b. : to cause to pass over or through

2. : to pass across (a meridian, a celestial body, or the field of view of a telescope)

3. : to turn (a telescope) over about the horizontal transverse axis in surveying

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.