·noun The act of passing; passage through or over.
II. Transit ·vt To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
III. Transit ·noun A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
IV. Transit ·noun The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
V. Transit ·noun The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
VI. Transit ·noun An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers;
— called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
VII. Transit ·noun 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.