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   transit

   /ˈtranzɪt/

   noun

   • 1. the carrying of people or things from one place to another: "a painting was damaged in transit"
   • ▪ the conveyance of passengers on public transport. North American
   • 2. the action of passing through or across a place: "Guatemala is to have freedom of transit across Belize"
   • ▪ the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet: "the transits of Mercury across the sun's disc"
   • ▪ the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
   • ▪ the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.

   verb

   • 1. pass across or through (an area): "the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal"
   • ▪ (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian): "at the end of February Jupiter transits the meridian"
   • ▪ (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire ‘go across’.

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   The meaning of TRANSIT is conveyance of persons or things from one place to another. How to use transit in a sentence.

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5. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTRANSIT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods, esp., local public transportation

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   Transit definition: the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another. See examples of TRANSIT used in a sentence.

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   Definition of transit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

8. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishTRANSIT | meaning - Cambridge Learner's Dictionary

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   TRANSIT definition: the movement of goods or people from one place to another: . Learn more.