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(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

(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.

(7):

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