/trans muy"greuhnt, tranz-/ , n.
1. a person or thing that transmigrates.
2. a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in which he or she intends to settle.
adj.
3. passing from one place or state to another.
[ 1665-75; transmigrant- (s. of transmigrans ), prp. of transmigrare to depart, migrate. See TRANS-, MIGRANT ]