Transit Definition–noun | 1. | the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another. |
| 2. | conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods, esp., local public transportation: city transit. Compare mass transit. |
| 3. | a transition or change. |
| 4. | Astronomy. | a. | the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope. |
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passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary. |
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| 5. | Astrology. the passage of a planet in aspect to another planet or a specific point in a horoscope. |
| 6. | Surveying. | a. | Also called transit instrument. an instrument, as a theodolite, having a telescope that can be transited, used for measuring horizontal and sometimes vertical angles. |
| b. | a repeating transit theodolite. |
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| 7. | (initial capital letter ) U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of satellites for providing positional data to ships and aircraft. |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | to pass across or through. |
| 9. | Surveying. to turn (the telescope of a transit) in a vertical plane in order to reverse direction; plunge. |
| 10. | Astronomy. to cross (a meridian, celestial body, etc.). |
–verb (used without object) | 11. | to pass over or through something; make a transit. |
| 12. | Astronomy. to make a transit across a meridian, celestial body, etc. |
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