Word Meaning

transits definition and meaning

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

Crossword clues for transits

- Airport area, ... lounge
- En route, in ...
- Involved tarts in passage of goods
- Pass across
- Pass across or through
- Pass through (airport)
- Passage (of goods)
- Passage across it
- Passage of goods
- Passage of goods or people
- Passage or conveyance
- Passing through
- Passing through in
- Passing through: in —
- Transport
- Passes across