Transit

['trænsɪt;'trɑːns-;-nz-] or ['træzɪt]

解释:

(verb.) cause or enable to pass through; 'The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day'.

(verb.) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.

(verb.) pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place); 'The comet will transit on September 11'.

(verb.) make a passage or journey from one place to another; 'The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;' 'Some travelers pass through the desert'.

格斯编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.

(n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

录入:玛丽埃塔

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Conveyance.[2]. Passage (as of a heavenly body across the meridian).

以斯拉录入

解释:

n. a passing over: conveyance: (astron.) the passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place: the passage of a planet over the sun's disc: a transit circle or instrument for observing the transit of a heavenly body across the meridian.—ns. Trans′it-dū′ty a duty chargeable on goods passing through a country; Trans′it-in′strument an astronomical telescope mounted in the meridian and turning on a fixed east and west axis; Transi′tion passage from one place or state to another: change: (mus.) a change of key.—adjs. Transi′tional Transi′tionary containing or denoting transition: of intermediate character between species or genera transmutational: characteristic of one epoch or style in its transition to another.—adv. Transi′tionally.—adj. Trans′itive passing over: having the power of passing: (gram.) denoting a verb which has a direct object.—adv. Trans′itively.—n. Trans′itiveness.—adv. Trans′itorily.—n. Trans′itoriness.—adj. Trans′itory going or passing away: lasting for a short time: speedily vanishing.—n. Trans′it-trade the trade of carrying foreign goods through a country.

整理:斯特拉