transit

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.