transit
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/, /ˈtɹæn.sɪt/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæn.zət/, /ˈtɹæn.sət/
- (UK, now rare) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɑːn.zɪt/[1]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ænzɪt
Noun
[edit]transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
- In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- the transit of goods through a country
- (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- (astrology) The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- (UK, Ireland) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
- Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
- (Canada, US) Public transport.
- I always take transit to work.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of passing over, across, or through something
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conveyance of people or goods from one place to another
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astronomy: passage of a celestial body
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astrology: passage of a celestial body
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surveying instrument
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Verb
[edit]transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
Translations
[edit]to pass over, across or through something
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to revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction
astronomy: to make a transit
internet: to carry traffic on compensation basis
Related terms
[edit]- transience
- transiency
- transient
- transition
- transitional
- transitionary
- transitionist
- transitive
- transitively
- transitory
References
[edit]- ^ Joan Beal (2002) English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 27 April 2018, page 109
Further reading
[edit]- “transit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “transit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “transit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]transit
- inflection of transir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- third-person singular past historic
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch transit, from French transit, from Latin trānseō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]transit (first-person possessive transitku, second-person possessive transitmu, third-person possessive transitnya)
Alternative forms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “transit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Ladin
[edit]Noun
[edit]transit m (plural transic)
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]trānsit
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish ترانسیت (transit), from French transit.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]transit (definite accusative transiti, plural transitler)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
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Nominative | transit | |
Definite accusative | transiti | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | transit | transitler |
Definite accusative | transiti | transitleri |
Dative | transite | transitlere |
Locative | transitte | transitlerde |
Ablative | transitten | transitlerden |
Genitive | transitin | transitlerin |
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