Found 3 items, similar to transit.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: transit melintasi, pengiriman, singgah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: transit transit n 1: a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod [syn: theodolite] 2: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods [syn: transportation system , transportation] 3: a journey usually by ship; “the outward passage took 10 days” [syn: passage] transit v 1: make a passage or journey from one place to another [syn: pass through , pass across, pass over] 2: 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” 3: revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction 4: cause or enable to pass through; “The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day”
English → English (gcide) Definition: transit Eclipse \E*clipse"\ ([-e]*kl[i^]ps"), n. [F. ['e]clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. 'e`kleipsis, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. 'eklei`pein to leave out, forsake; 'ek out + lei`pein to leave. See Ex-, and Loan.] 1. (Astron.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. [1913 Webster] Note: In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature. [1913 Webster] That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. [1913 Webster] All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. --Shelley. [1913 Webster] Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle. [1913 Webster]