transit

[tran-sit, -zit] /ˈtræn sɪt, -zɪt/
noun
1.
the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
2.
conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods, especially, local public transportation:
city transit.
Compare mass transit.
3.
a transition or change.
4.
Astronomy.
  1. the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope.
  2. the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary.
  3. meridian circle.
5.
Astrology. the passage of a planet in aspect to another planet or a specific point in a horoscope.
6.
Surveying.
  1. Also called transit instrument. an instrument, as a theodolite, having a telescope that can be transited, used for measuring horizontal and sometimes vertical angles.
  2. a repeating transit theodolite.
7.
(initial capital letter) U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of satellites for providing positional data to ships and aircraft.
verb (used with object), transited, transiting.
8.
to pass across or through.
9.
Surveying. to turn (the telescope of a transit) in a vertical plane in order to reverse direction; plunge.
10.
Astronomy. to cross (a meridian, celestial body, etc.).
verb (used without object), transited, transiting.
11.
to pass over or through something; make a transit.
12.
Astronomy. to make a transit across a meridian, celestial body, etc.
Origin
1400-50; late Middle English (noun and v.) < Latin trānsitus a going across, passage, equivalent to trānsi-, variant stem of trānsīre to cross (trāns- trans- + -īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action

sic transit gloria mundi

[seek trahn-sit gloh-ri-ah moo n-dee; English sik tran-sit glawr-ee-uh muhn-dahy, -dee, glohr-, -zit] /sik ˈtrɑn sɪt ˈgloʊ rɪˌɑ ˈmʊn di; English sɪk ˈtræn sɪt ˈglɔr i ə ˈmʌn daɪ, -di, ˈgloʊr-, -zɪt/
Latin.
1.
thus passes away the glory of this world.
Examples from the web for transit
  • Let's say there's a public transit line near your house.
  • We made arrangements with the local transit company to run extra shuttle buses from the center of town to the campus.
  • transit sparked competing efforts to develop an even better navigational system.
  • Their destinations are close enough to walk to, and enough people are going to the same places to make public transit practical.
  • Preventing crime from entering a transit system is possible.
  • Or perhaps you live in a large metro area with untenable traffic and unreliable transit.
  • transit times became shorter and more predictable, attracting container lines.
  • Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads.
  • Bus banners subsidize the cost of public transit needed.
  • We have a lot of cars down there and not much in the way of alternative transit options.
British Dictionary definitions for transit

transit

/ˈtrænsɪt; ˈtrænz-/
noun
1.
  1. the passage or conveyance of goods or people
  2. (as modifier): a transit visa
2.
a change or transition
3.
a route
4.
(astronomy)
  1. the passage of a celestial body or satellite across the face of a relatively larger body as seen from the earth
  2. the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian, caused by the earth's diurnal rotation
5.
(astrology) the passage of a planet across some special point on the zodiac
6.
in transit, while being conveyed; during passage
verb
7.
to make a transit through or over (something)
8.
(astronomy) to make a transit across (a celestial body or the meridian)
9.
to cause (the telescope of a surveying instrument) to turn over or (of such a telescope) to be turned over in a vertical plane so that it points in the opposite direction
Derived Forms
transitable, adjective
Word Origin
C15: from Latin transitus a going over, from transīre to pass over; see transient

sic transit gloria mundi

/ˈsɪk ˈtrænsɪt ˈɡlɔːrɪˌɑː ˈmʊndiː/
uknown
1.
thus passes the glory of the world
Word Origin and History for transit
n.

"act or fact of passing across or through," mid-15c., from Latin transitus, past participle of transire "go or cross over" (see transient). Meaning "public transporation" is attested from 1873.

v.

mid-15c., from Latin transitus, past participle of transire "go or cross over" (see transient). Related: Transited; transiting.

sic transit gloria mundi

c.1600, Latin, literally "thus passes the glory of the world;" perhaps an alteration of a passage in Thomas Á Kempis' "Imitatio Christi" (1471).

transit in Science
transit
  (trān'sĭt)   

  1. The passage of a smaller celestial body or its shadow across the disk of a larger celestial body. As observed from Earth, Mercury and Venus are the only planets of the solar system that make transits of the Sun, because they are the only planets with orbits that lie between Earth and the Sun. Mercury makes an average of 13 transits of the Sun each century. Transits of Venus across the Sun are much rarer, with only 7 of them having occurred between 1639 and 2004. In contrast, transits of Jupiter's moons across its disk are common occurrences. Compare occultation.

  2. The passage of a celestial body across the celestial meridian (the great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and an observer's zenith). For any observer, the object is at its highest in the sky at its transit of the observer's meridian. See more at celestial meridian.


transit in Culture
Sic transit gloria mundi [(sik tran-sit glawr-ee-uh moon-dee)]

Latin for “Thus passes away the glory of the world”; worldly things do not last.

transit in Technology

language
A subsystem of ICES.
[Sammet 1969, p.616].
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Idioms and Phrases with transit

sic transit gloria mundi

Nothing on earth is permanent, as in His first three novels were bestsellers and now he can't even find an agent—sic transit gloria mundi. This expression, Latin for “Thus passes the glory of the world,” has been used in English since about 1600, and is familiar enough so that it is sometimes abbreviated to sic transit.
Encyclopedia Article for transit

in astronomy, the passage of a relatively small body across the disk of a larger body, usually the Sun or a planet, occulting only a very small area. Mercury and Venus periodically transit the Sun, and a satellite may transit its planet. Compare eclipse.

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