Transit

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Transit may refer to:

Computing

• Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers

Science and engineering

• Astronomical transit, the apparent motion of one celestial body across the face of another celestial body or meridian
• In surveying, to transit the telescope means to turn the telescope about the trunnion axis, thus turning the telescope through the vertical plane
• Transit telescope, a special-purpose telescope mounted so as to point only at objects transiting the local meridian
• A specialized type of theodolite used in surveying
• Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
• Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line

Transportation

• Transport or Transportation
• Ford Transit, a Ford Motor Company van
• Mass transit, public transport systems in which passengers are carried in large numbers
• Transit (ship), the name given to the three sailing vessels designed and built for Captain Richard Hall Gower

Media

• Transit (band), an American pop-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts
• Transit (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film
• Transit (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four different people in countries in the world
• Transit (2006 film), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II
• Transit (2012 film), an American thriller
• Transit (2013 film), a Filipino independent film
• Transit (novel), a 1964 science fiction by Edmund Cooper
• Transit Visa (novel), title also translated as just Transit, a 1944 novel by Anna Seghers
• Transit (Doctor Who), a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who
• Transit (Sponge Cola album)
• Transit (A. J. Croce album)
• Transit Transit, an album by the band Autolux
• Transit, stage name of Canadian indie hip-hop artist Dan Bennett

Other uses

• Routing transit number, an identifying code used in transferring funds through banking institutions
• Transit, Canadian shoe retailer now operating under the name Spring

See also

• Transat (disambiguation)
• Transition (disambiguation)

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