transit

• make a passage or journey from one place to another
• a journey usually by ship
• The act of passing
• a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
• a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
• pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
• revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
• cause or enable to pass through
• The act or process of causing to pass
• A line or route of passage or conveyance
• 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
• To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body)

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