Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRANS'IT
TRAN-SIL'I-ENCE, or TRAN-SIL'I-EN-CYTRANS'IT
TRANS'IT, n. [L. transitus, from transeo.]
- A passing; a passing over or through; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
- In astronomy, the passing of one heavenly body over the disk of another and larger. I witnessed the transit of Venus over the sun's disk, June 3, 1769. When a smaller body passes behind a larger, it is said to suffer an occultation.
- The passage of one heavenly body over the meridian of another.
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