transit

1. 1.

   make a passage or journey from one place to another

   “The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs”

   “Some travelers pass through the desert”

   Synonymspass throughmove throughpass acrosspass over

   Broaderpass

   Narrowercut
2. 2.

   pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)

   “The comet will transit on September 11”

   Broaderpass
3. 3.

   revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

   Broaderroll
4. 4.

   cause or enable to pass through

   “The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day”

   Broaderbring

1. 1.

   a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

   Synonymstheodolite

   Broadersurveying instrument

   Narrowertachymeter

   Partsalidade
2. 2.

   a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

   Synonymstransportation systemtransportation

   Broaderfacility

   Narrowerair transportation systemhighway systempublic transitshort linetelpherage

   Part ofinfrastructure

   Partsairfieldbridgelinepublic transportterminalway
3. 3.

   a journey usually by ship

   “the outward passage took 10 days”

   Synonymspassage

   Broaderjourney

   Narrowerlockage

Other forms of transit

plural

transits·

past tense

transitted·

present participle

transitting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about transit

What does transit mean?

transit means "make a passage or journey from one place to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transit?

transit has 2 syllables: tran-sit. The stress falls on "tran". In IPA it is /ˈtɹænzɪt/.

What is another word for transit?

Close synonyms include pass through, move through, pass across, pass over, theodolite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transit a common word?

transit is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.