Business name word

Transit

The act of passing over, across, or through something.

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/, /ˈtɹæn.sɪt/

What “Transit” means

Noun

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.
Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.

Verb

To pass over, across or through something.
To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
To use public transit.
To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
To make a transit.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Latin eō Latin trānsēo Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin trānsituslbor. French transitder. English transit From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

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