TRANSIT

Definitions

1. 1. The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke.
2. 2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
3. 3. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit. E. G. Squier.
4. 4. The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
5. 5. 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.
6. 6. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.