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The act of passing; passage through or over. |
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The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the
transit of goods through a country. |
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A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the
Nicaragua transit. |
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The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a
place, or through the field of a telescope. |
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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. |
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An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors
and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit. |
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To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body). |
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