n.
- the carrying of people or things from one place to another.
▸N. Amer. the conveyance of passengers on public transport.
- an act of passing through or across a place.
▸Astronomy the passage of a planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon across the face of a planet.
v.
(transits, transiting, transited)
pass across or through.
Etymology
ME: from L. transitus, from transire ‘go across’.