transit Definition

transit
noun

1. The act or process of carrying or moving goods, passengers, etc from one place to another.

Thesaurus: passage, transition, transference, conveyance, transportation, infiltration, penetration, osmosis.
2. A route or passage.
(N Amer, especially US)
3. The transport of passengers or goods on public, usually local, routes.
4a. astron.
The passage of a heavenly body across a meridian;
4b. astron.
The passage of a smaller heavenly body across a larger one, eg of a moon across its planet;
4c. astron.
The passage of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of a planet.

verb

transited, transiting
1. To pass across or through.

Idiom: in transit

Said of goods or passengers: in the process of being taken from or travelling from one place to another.

Etymology: 15c: from Latin transire, transitus to go across.