Transit
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Transit may refer to:
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[edit] Transportation
- Ford Transit, a van made by the Ford Motor Company
- Mass transit, public transport systems in which passengers are carried in large numbers
- Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line
- Transit (ship), the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower
- TransIT, the public transportation bus service in Frederick, Maryland
- Transit New Zealand, a crown entity responsible for the New Zealand national state highway network.
[edit] Science and technology
- 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
- Internet transit, one of the two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers
- Routing transit number, an identifying code used in transference of funds through banking institutions
[edit] Other uses
- Transit, Canadian shoe retailer now operating under the name Spring
- Astrological transit, the comparison and evaluation of planets in their current position in relation to those on a Natal Chart
[edit] Media
- Transit (band), an American Pop-Punk from Boston, MA.
- Transit (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film
- Transit (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive; about four people in different 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 (novel), a 1964 science fiction novel 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.
[edit] See also
- Transat (disambiguation)
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