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

Synonyms:

navigate, trip, peregrinate, cover, departure, get across, perambulate, freight, jump, action, infiltrate, musical passage, journey, cut across, disturbance, pass over, get over, passageway, flight, pilgrimage, excursion, deportation, voyage, handing over, travel, cut through, telescope, tour, link, cut, skip over, locomotion, cross, public transportation, expatriation, expedition, follow, skip, wipe, shipping, traverse, pass through, fare, transport, passage, transportation, exile, passing, move through, communication, theodolite, pass across, transportation system, movement, transferral, overfly, motion, public transport, carriage, transition, conveyance, enactment, track, mover, arrivals, service, mass transit

reclaim, proselytize, sublimate, regenerate

diversify, convert, transform, set, reform, adjust, modify, adapt, deviate, fluctuate, vacillate, mutate, modulate, alter, vary, transfigure, transpose, change

log, ruler, sextant, dial, rod, yardstick, straightedge, gauge, compass, scale, vernier, level, micrometer, calipers, line, T square, square, tape measure, rule, protractor

budge, stir, go, relocate, move, pass, transfer, run, proceed, shift, actuate, course, flow

penetration, permeation

Usage examples:

• Mackenzie, a century ago, came across the birds here, and they have persisted ever since, although in the direct line of the river- transit of the fur- traders. - "The New North", Agnes Deans Cameron.
• The United States have the mere right of transit over them for the purpose of carrying the mails; the government could not have an injunction to prevent the destruction of a mail- road. - "Monopolies and the People", D. C. Cloud.
• No cooking could be done, of course, but the Captain arranged to eat at Mrs. Higgins's hospitable table during the transit. - "The Depot Master", Joseph C. Lincoln.