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- English Word Transit Definition The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
- English Word Transit Definition A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
- English Word Transit Definition The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
- English Word Transit Definition 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.
- English Word Transit Definition An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
- English Word Transit Definition To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
- English Word Transition Definition Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
- English Word Transition Definition A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
- English Word Transition Definition A passing from one subject to another.
- English Word Transition Definition Change from one form to another.
- English Word Transitional Definition Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
- English Word Transitionary Definition Transitional.
- English Word Transitive Definition Having the power of making a transit, or passage.
- English Word Transitive Definition Effected by transference of signification.
- English Word Transitive Definition Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book.
- English Word Transitorily Definition In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.
- English Word Transitoriness Definition The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.
- English Word Transitory Definition Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
- English Word Translatable Definition Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
- English Word Translate Definition To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.