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.

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