transit from one place to another

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• transit — ► NOUN 1) the carrying of people or things from one place to another. 2) an act of passing through or across a place. ► VERB (transited, transiting) ▪ pass across or through. ORIGIN Latin transitus, from transire go across …   English terms dictionary

• transit — The movement of goods from one European Union ( EU) Member State to another without the need to enter them to a customs procedure. HM Customs & Revenue Glossary * * * transit tran‧sit [ˈtrænst, zt] noun [uncountable] 1. TRANSPORT TRAVEL the… …   Financial and business terms

• transit — [[t]træ̱nzɪt[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Transit is the carrying of goods or people by vehicle from one place to another. They halted transit of EC livestock. ...a transit time of about 42 minutes. ● PHRASE: v link PHR, PHR after v If people or things are… …   English dictionary

• transit — /tran sit, zit/, n., v., transited, transiting. n. 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, esp., local public… …   Universalium

• transit — /ˈtrænzət / (say tranzuht) noun 1. the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another. 2. conveyance from one place to another, as of persons or goods: the problem of rapid transit in cities. 3. a transition or change …  

• transit — tran•sit [[t]ˈtræn sɪt, zɪt[/t]] n. 1) the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another 2) trs conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as of persons or goods 3) a means or system of local public… …   From formal English to slang

• transit — tran|sit [ˈtrænsıt, zıt] n [U] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: transitus, from transire; TRANSIENT1] 1.) the process of moving goods or people from one place to another ▪ baggage that is lost or damaged in transit (=while it is being moved) ▪… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• One-way speed of light — The one way speed of light from a source to a detector, cannot be measured independently of a convention as to how to synchronize the clocks at the source and the detector. What can however be experimentally measured is the round trip speed (or… …   Wikipedia

• transit — i. The passage of a celestial body across a celestial meridian. ii. The apparent passage of a celestial body across the face of another. iii. A condition in which an observer and two objects on the earth’s surface are in one line. iv. The passage …   Aviation dictionary

• transit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. passage, change, transition, conveyance, transportation, motion. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Passage] Syn. transition, transference, conveyance, transportation, permeation, infiltration, penetration,… …   English dictionary for students

• transit — tran|sit [ trænsıt ] noun uncount ** 1. ) the activity or process of moving something or someone from one place to another: in transit: Our suitcases were damaged in transit. 2. ) AMERICAN a system of buses, trains, etc. that people use to travel …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English