1. (n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.

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

3. (n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

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

5. (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.

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

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

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