transit
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I. noun
Etymology: Middle English transite, from Latin transitus, from transire to go across, pass
Date: 15th century
1.
a. an act, process, or instance of passing through or over ; passage
b. change, transition
c.
(1) conveyance of persons or things from one place to another
(2) usually local transportation especially of people by public conveyance; also vehicles or a system engaged in such transportation
2.
a. passage of a celestial body over the meridian of a place or through the field of a telescope
b. passage of a smaller body (as Venus) across the disk of a larger (as the sun)
3. a theodolite with the telescope mounted so that it can be transited
II. verb
Date: 15th century
intransitive verb
to make a transit
transitive verb
1.
a. to pass over or through ; traverse
b. to cause to pass over or through
2. to pass across (a meridian, a celestial body, or the field of view of a telescope)
3. to turn (a telescope) over about the horizontal transverse axis in surveying
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