Definitions for transits

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transits tran·sit

Spelling: [tran-sit, -zit]

IPA: /ˈtræn sɪt, -zɪt/

Transits is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in transits (ainrsstt).

Definitions for transits

noun

1. the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
2. conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods, especially, local public transportation: Compare mass transit.
3. a transition or change.
4. Astronomy. the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope. the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary. meridian circle.
5. Astrology. the passage of a planet in aspect to another planet or a specific point in a horoscope.
6. Surveying. Also called transit instrument. an instrument, as a theodolite, having a telescope that can be transited, used for measuring horizontal and sometimes vertical angles. a repeating transit theodolite.
7. (initial capital letter) U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of satellites for providing positional data to ships and aircraft.

verb (used with object)

1. to pass across or through.
2. Surveying. to turn (the telescope of a transit) in a vertical plane in order to reverse direction; plunge.
3. Astronomy. to cross (a meridian, celestial body, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to pass over or through something; make a transit.
2. Astronomy. to make a transit across a meridian, celestial body, etc.

Origin of transits

1400-50; late Middle English (noun and v.) Latin trānsitus a going across, passage, equivalent to trānsi-, variant stem of trānsīre to cross (trāns- trans- + -īre to

Examples for transits

This is half watering-place and half port of transit to the opposite coast.

The transit of the moon has been observed with much success.

A source tells The Daily Beast that Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) will be the next chair of the Highways and transit Subcommittee.

On top of the $8-10K salary, visa and transit costs will be covered.

Its method of transit is direct person-to-person contact with body fluids.

That meant that the news was important, for such means of transit were expensive.

The railroads of Italy are, at present, very poor in all facilities of transit.

The paperwork was spotless: he had died in transit, the conjunction of a weak heart and long trip.

My passenger had been making remarks in transit, but I paid no attention to them.

Instead of a lock and key, you get “strong encryption to protect evidence data in transit and at rest.”