TRANSIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transit mean? 

• TRANSIT (noun)
  The noun TRANSIT has 3 senses:

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

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

3. a journey usually by ship

  Familiarity information: TRANSIT used as a noun is uncommon.

• TRANSIT (verb)
  The verb TRANSIT has 4 senses:

1. make a passage or journey from one place to another

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)

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

4. cause or enable to pass through

  Familiarity information: TRANSIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

theodolite; transit

Hypernyms ("transit" is a kind of...):

surveying instrument; surveyor's instrument (an instrument used by surveyors)

Meronyms (parts of "transit"):

alidad; alidade (surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transit"):

tacheometer; tachymeter (a theodolite designed for rapid measurements)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

transit; transportation; transportation system

Hypernyms ("transit" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

Meronyms (parts of "transit"):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

bridge; span (a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.)

public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)

airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)

depot; terminal; terminus (station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods)

way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transit"):

air transportation system (a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air)

highway system (a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport)

public transit (a public transportation system for moving passengers)

short line (a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances)

telferage; telpherage (a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity)

Holonyms ("transit" is a part of...):

base; infrastructure (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area)

Derivation:

transit (cause or enable to pass through)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A journey usually by ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

passage; transit

Context example:

the outward passage took 10 days

Hypernyms ("transit" is a kind of...):

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transit"):

lockage (passage through a lock in a canal or waterway)

Derivation:

transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)

• TRANSIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transit    ... he / she / it transits   
Past simple: transited   
Past participle: transited   
-ing form: transiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a passage or journey from one place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit

Context example:

Some travelers pass through the desert

Hypernyms (to "transit" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Verb group:

transit (cause or enable to pass through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transit"):

cut (pass through or across)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

transit (a journey usually by ship)

transition (the act of passing from one state or place to the next)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The comet will transit on September 11

Hypernyms (to "transit" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "transit" is one way to...):

revolve; roll (cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause or enable to pass through

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day

Hypernyms (to "transit" is one way to...):

bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

Verb group:

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Scientists monitored the planet before and during its 19-hour transit across the face of the star.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

The transits TESS observed belong to GJ 357 b, a planet about 22% larger than Earth.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

I have done quite a bit of independent research, and every time I have seen a person experience this once-in-a-decade transit of Jupiter, that person loses weight.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This ultimately accelerates GI transit of intestinal contents, improves bowel movement and relieves constipation.

(Linaclotide, NCI Thesaurus)

This slows intestinal transit and allows for more water and electrolyte absorption from the intestines.

(Loperamide hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The planet has a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found.

(New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study also considered electrical charges that could develop as astronauts transit the surface on potential human missions to Phobos.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

Stimulation of gut mu-subtype opioid receptors results in a reduction in intestinal motility and delayed intestinal transit times.

(Codeine, NCI Thesaurus)

Serum concentrations transit during the menstrual cycle.

(Inhibin A, NCI Thesaurus)

This process is pertinent to the description of a cancer cell and its transit into a blood vessel for metastasis to other sites, or to begin neoangiogenesis.

(Intravasation, NCI Thesaurus)