Transit

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Transit

Transit : கடந்து செல்லும் வழி

Transit : கடந்து செல்லும் வழி

Transit definition

Noun.

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

Transitive verb. To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).