transit
/ˈtɹæn.sɪt//ˈtɹæn.sɪt/noun
Definitions
The act of passing over, across, or through something.
The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
Example: the transit of goods through a country
The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
verb
Definitions
To pass over, across or through something.
To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
To make a transit.
To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.