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transit

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1. transit - Noun

2. transit - Verb

Meaning

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).

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. George Steiner

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. Norman Mailer

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. Lakhdar Brahimi

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. Vernon Jordan

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. ... We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit. Michael Bloomberg

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world. Diana Gabaldon

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