transit
/ˈtɹæn.zət/UK/ˈtɹæn.zɪt/
transit noun: the act of passing over, across, or through something.
Noun (1)
transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
- In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- the transit of goods through a country
- Synonyms:
- transport
- Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
- I always take transit to work.
- Synonyms:
- public transport
- The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
- Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
Verb
transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- To use public transit.
- I always transit to work.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
- To make a transit.
- To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
Noun (2) capitalized: Transit
Transit (plural Transits)
- A Ford Transit van.
transit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
transit in Hindi
- act of passing over, across, or through something
- आवागमन āvāgman
- conveyance of people or goods from one place to another
- आवागमन āvāgman, परिवहन parivhan
- astronomy: passage of a celestial body
- संक्रमण saṅkramaṇ
transit in Tamil
- இடை வழி, கடப்பு
transit in Urdu
- astronomy: passage of a celestial body
- حرکات harakāt
transit in Bengali
- পরিবহন, গমন, সংক্রমণ, সঁচার, ক্রাঁতি, গমন করা
More languagesFewer languages
- transit in Malayalam
- സംതരണം, കടക്കൽ, മാർഗ്ഗം, കൊണ്ടുപോകൽ
- transit in Kannada
- ಸಾಗುವಾಡ, ಸಾಗಣೆ, ರವಾನೆ, ಪ್ರಯಾಣ
- transit in Sanskrit
- संचार saṃcāra
- transit in Tagalog
- dumaan, lumusot
- transit in Arabic
- مُرُور murūr, عُبُور ʕubūr
- transit in Persian
- گذر gozar, گذشتن gozaštan
Examples of transit in a sentence
- The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.
- The company will not be responsible for the loss of shipped goods in transit.
- It is important to maintain the correct temperature for perishable goods in transit.
Synonyms of transit
Forms of transit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | transits |
| plural | Transits |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | transits |
| present participle | transiting |
| past participle | transited |
| past | transited |
Origin of transit
From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
Words formed from transit
- antitransit
- bowel transit time
- bus rapid transit
- colonic transit time
- fabrication-in-transit
- interval transit time
- in transit
- light rail transit
- microtransit
- milling-in-transit
- nontransit
- paratransit
- protransit
- rapid transit
- transit bus
- transit instrument
- transit lane
- transit lounge
- transitology
- transit telescope
- transit tetany
- transitway
Phrases with transit
Questions about transit
- What does transit mean?
- Transit means the act of passing over, across, or through something.
- What is transit in Hindi?
- Transit in Hindi is आवागमन (āvāgman), परिवहन (parivhan), संक्रमण (saṅkramaṇ). See Transit meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is transit?
- Transit can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce transit?
- Transit is pronounced /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of transit?
- The plural of transit is transits.
Words near transit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transit (page history and authors); Transit (page history and authors); transit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संचार (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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