transit.

1. The act or period of traveling or passing through a place.

2. The passage of a celestial body across the visible disk of another, larger-looking body.

3. A surveying instrument with a telescope that can turn through a vertical plane to measure angles.

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Words that belong together

• in transit
• transit time

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The passengers spent nine days in transit before the signal returned.

Transit time mattered less once the food stores failed.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular transit; plural transits. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: transits.