1. The act of passing over, across, or through; passage. 2. Conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a local public transportation system. 3. A transition or change, as to a spiritual existence at death. 4. The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian. 5. The passage of a smaller celestial body or its shadow across the disk of a larger celestial body. 6. A surveying instrument similar to a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles. 7. aircraft transiting the United States and Canada. 8. To revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction. 9. To make a transit.
