Transportation vs. Transit

Transportationnoun

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.

Transportationnoun

(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.

Transportationnoun

(US) A means of conveyance.

Transportationnoun

(US) A ticket or fare.

Transportationnoun

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

Transportationnoun

Transport; ecstasy.

Transportationnoun

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

Transportationnoun

the act of transporting something from one location to another

Transportationnoun

the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

Transportationnoun

the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

Transportationnoun

the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Transportationnoun

the act of expelling a person from their native land;

Transitnoun

The act of passing over, across, or through something.

Transitnoun

The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

Transitnoun

(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

Transitnoun

A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.

Transitnoun

(navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.

Transitnoun

(British) A Ford Transit van, see Transit. en

Transitnoun

(North America) Public transport system.

Transitverb

To pass over, across or through something.

Transitverb

To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.

Transitverb

To make a transit.

Transitverb

(Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

Transitnoun

The act of passing; passage through or over.

Transitnoun

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

Transitnoun

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

Transitnoun

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

Transitnoun

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

Transitverb

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

Transitnoun

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

Transitnoun

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

Transitnoun

a journey usually by ship;

Transitverb

make a passage or journey from one place to another

Transitverb

pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place);

Transitverb

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

Transitverb

cause or enable to pass through;

Transitnoun

the carrying of people or things from one place to another

Transitnoun

the conveyance of passengers on public transport.

Transitnoun

the action of passing through or across a place

Transitnoun

the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet

Transitnoun

the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.

Transitnoun

the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.

Transitverb

pass across or through (an area)

Transitverb

(of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian)

Transitverb

(of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).