[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another:The area continues to be affected by the transit of illegal drugs bound for major cities.", "conveyance or transportation of people or goods from one place to another, especially local public transportation:Compare mass transit(def) mass transit(def).Improving city transit is a high priority for the new mayor.", "a transition or change:The transit of autumn to winter saw woodpecker season in full swing and Canada geese on the move.", "Astronomy.the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope:The experiments lasted long enough for us to detect the transit of black holes with a mass of up to 10 times that of our sun.the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary:In June 2012, a NASA webcast enabled the public to view the transit of Venus across the solar disk. meridian circle(def) meridian circle(def).", "the passage of a heavenly body across the meridian of a given location or through the field of a telescope:The experiments lasted long enough for us to detect the transit of black holes with a mass of up to 10 times that of our sun.", "the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disk of the sun, or of a satellite or its shadow across the face of its primary:In June 2012, a NASA webcast enabled the public to view the transit of Venus across the solar disk.", "meridian circle(def) meridian circle(def).", "Astrology.the passage of a planet through one of the twelve houses or divisions of the celestial sphere celestial sphereor across the position held by another planet in a person’s birth chart birth chart:The transit of Mars is happening in the third house for you, so expect a shift in things concerning home and family.", "Also called transit theodolite transit theodolite, transit instrument transit instrument.Surveying.a type of theodolite having a telescope that can be flipped vertically to reverse the direction of view: used for measuring horizontal and often vertical angles, sometimes with the ability to take successive measurements of the same angle and average them for greater accuracy.", "Transit,U.S. Aerospace.one of a series of satellites for providing positional data to ships and aircraft."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to pass across or through:Many millions of oil barrels transit the Suez Canal every day.It’s fairly easy to intercept emails as they transit the internet.", "Surveying, Astronomy.to flip (a telescope) vertically in order to reverse the direction of view.", "Astronomy.to cross (a meridian, celestial body, etc.):Mercury transits the sun about 13 or 14 times each century."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to pass over, through, into, or out of something:Are you planning on transiting through the United States?Attackers can hijack your data as it transits to and from your system.", "Astronomy.to make a passage across a meridian, celestial body, etc.:The probe was looking for planets transiting across the face of stars."]}]