transit

transit is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of passing; passage through or over. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of passing; passage through or over.
2. noun. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
3. noun. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
4. noun. The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
7. transitive verb. To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
8. noun. a journey usually by ship

   "the outward passage took 10 days"

   Synonyms: passage

9. noun. a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

   Synonyms: theodolite

10. noun. a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

    Synonyms: transportation

11. verb. cause or enable to pass through

    "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"

12. verb. revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
13. verb. 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"

14. verb. make a passage or journey from one place to another "Some travelers pass through the desert"

    "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;"

Synonyms

passage, theodolite, transportation

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in transit:

straint, tristan

Common word forms

transits, transited, transiter, transiting, transitable

Words from these letters

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