transit
transit is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, transit is hyphenated as:
Definitions oftransit
- 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.
- An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
Example: "Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel."
- Public transport system.
Example: "I always take the transit to work."
- 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.
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