Word
Transit
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
trans-it
Definition
- 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.
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