(n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.
(n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the
transit of goods through a country.
(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the
Nicaragua transit.
(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a
place, or through the field of a telescope.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors
and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
