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English

🔊 a journey usually by ship
“the outward passage took 10 days”
🔊 a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
🔊 a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
🔊 cause or enable to pass through
“The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day”
🔊 revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
🔊 pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
“The comet will transit on September 11”
🔊 make a passage or journey from one place to another
“The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs”