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The Meaning of transit
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(n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.
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(n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
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(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
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(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
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(n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
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(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
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(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
Synonyms
theodolite
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transportation system
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transportation
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passage
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pass through
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move through
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pass across
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pass over
Rhymes
ansate
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lanzet