Definition of Transit

Transit

The act of passing; passage through or over.

The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

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.

An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

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Transit Quotations

A thought is an idea in transit.
Pythagoras

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
Lakhdar Brahimi

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
Ajay Naidu

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
Lord Melbourne

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
Simon Newcomb

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.
Judy Biggert

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.
John Mica

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
Henry Morton Stanley

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Vernon Jordan

With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.
Tom Barrett

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
William Lamb Melbourne

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
Bill Lipinski

In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done.
Susan Collins

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Transit Translations

transit in French is transiter, transit
transit in Italian is tragitto
transit in Swedish is genomresa

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