transit

Noun

• a journey usually by ship
  • the outward passage took 10 days
    

• a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

• a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

Verb

• cause or enable to pass through
  • The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day
    

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

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  passage , transportation system , transportation , theodolite , pass through , move through , pass across , pass over