Transit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRANSIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pass across or through
• pass across or through (an area)
• (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian)
• (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).
• To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
• make a passage or journey from one place to another
• pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
• revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
• cause or enable to pass through
• make transit
NOUN:
• the carrying of people or things from one place to another
• the conveyance of passengers on public transport.
• the action of passing through or across a place
• the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet
• the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
• the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.
• passage or conveyance of goods or people
• The act of passing; passage through or over.
• The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
• A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
• The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
• 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.
• An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor\'s transit.
• a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
• a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
• a journey usually by ship

Words related to TRANSIT

transitable13 transited10 transiting11 transits8

Words that contain TRANSIT

transits8 transited10 transiting11 transition10 transitive13 transitory13 transitway16 transitable13 transitions11 transitives14 paratransit13 transitways17 ditransitive16 intransitive15 transitional12 transitioned13 transitively18 transitivity18 transitorily15 paratransits14 ditransitives17 nontransitive16 transitionals13 transitionary16 transitioning14 intransitives16 intransitively20 intransitivity20 transitionally17 transitiveness17 transitivities17 transitoriness14 intransitivenes18 transitorinesse15 transitivenesse18 intransitivitie18 transitivenesses19 transitorinesses16 intransitiveness19 intransitivities19 intransitivenesses21

How to use TRANSIT in a sentence

• Professor HYDRAGE read an Essay on the Transit of Mercury, which he said would take place in the form of a Bed Precipitate in 1878.
• Besides Papara, I visited also Venus Point, a small tongue of land where Cook observed the transit of Venus.
• The transit instrument with which the meridian line was traced had been loaned to the commission by the Hon.
• The route of the detachment was the one I have mentioned before as inland through the forest, and striking the Transit road some miles west of the lake and Virgin Bay.
• One of them met me in the path, and told me I must go with them until they had got beyond the Transit road.
• Time is money, and it may be in the coming years that a demand will arise for faster means of transit than that which we possess at present.
• Descending from the sky and floating through the arches are three of the Apostles, while one who has just alighted from his aerial transit kneels and folds his hands in adoration.
• We can bring the transit out this afternoon for taking the levels.
• Right to hold slaves in transit through free-States.
• The fixed mirror was one of those used in taking photographs of the transit of Venus.
• It has been found that the expense saved in roads, labour, and transit on the level has been very considerable in comparison with that incurred on some of the hill estates.
• In our rapid transit through life we are so inclined to forget the past stages of the journey.
• This would keep them alive some time if they were not killed some other way in transit.
• The transit took some eighteen hours, with an occasional halt for refreshments.
• Moreover, she had greater confidence during this second transit over the exposed portion of the deck.
• At Richmond there was nearly three miles of continuous ice transit, and for some distance above Teddington Lock and Kingston Bridge.
• For a time neither of these inventions was applied to the needs of intra-urban transit at all.
• As I was absent at the Cape of Good Hope to observe the transit of Venus during the most eventful occasion of his administration, I have very little personal knowledge of it.
• One of the interesting scraps of history connected with the transit of 1769 concerns the observations of Father Maximilian Hell, S.
• He observed the transit at Wardhus, a point near the northern extremity of Norway, where the sun did not set at the season of the transit.
• As may readily be supposed, the transit of Venus did not occupy much time at the table.
• At that time, no original observations made at the transit instrument were ever preserved.
• In 1769 it was determined to send an expedition to the Pacific to observe the transit of Venus.
• The Mexican interior transit duties should also be abolished, and also their internal Government duty on coin and bullion.
• This goes to show that money has not been spared to obtain rapid transit.
• It needs only a reduction in the cost of transit, to extend the consumption in the interior of the island to an almost unlimited extent.
• The world was advancing in a spiritual transit of events towards the close.
• If the earth were at B when Venus is at E, Venus would be seen on the disk of the sun, making a transit.
• We reached the town the next day, my men improved by the river transit.
• This elder Chappe had previously made a journey into Siberia, and had seen from that station the transit of Venus in 1761.
• The trolley and the electromoter have largely solved the problem of rapid transit through our crowded cities.

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