Noun

Singular transit

Plural countable and uncountable; plural transits

transit (countable and uncountable; plural transits)

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
2. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
3. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
4. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
5. (navigation) an imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, then navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
6. (British) a Ford Transit van.
7. (Internet) to carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

Transit may refer to:

Transportation

• Ford Transit, a van made by the Ford Motor Company
• Mass transit, transportation systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles
• Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line
• Transit (ship), the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower
• TransIT, the public transportation bus service in Frederick, Maryland
• Transit New Zealand, a crown entity responsible for the New Zealand national state highway network.

Science and technology

• Astronomical transit, the apparent motion of one celestial body across the face of another celestial body or meridian
• Transit telescope, a special purpose telescope mounted so as to point only at objects transiting the local meridian
• A specialized type of Theodolite used in surveying
• Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
• Internet transit, one of the two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers
• Routing transit number, an identifying code used in transference of funds through banking institutions