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* '''Transit''', a specialized type of [[Theodolite]] used in surveying. |
* '''Transit''', a specialized type of [[Theodolite]] used in surveying. |
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'''Transit''' may also refer to: |
'''Transit''' may also refer to: Transitguru a transit information site on the world wide web specializing in public transit |
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* Transit visa or transit papers, a type of [[Visa (document)#Types of visa|visa]] issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entrance to that country |
* Transit visa or transit papers, a type of [[Visa (document)#Types of visa|visa]] issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entrance to that country |
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* [[Transit instrument]], a specialized telescope for observing astronomical transits |
* [[Transit instrument]], a specialized telescope for observing astronomical transits |
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Look up transit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Transit commonly refers to:
- Public transport, transportation systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles
- Astronomical transit, when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point
- Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line
- Transit, a specialized type of Theodolite used in surveying.
Transit may also refer to: Transitguru a transit information site on the world wide web specializing in public transit
- Transit visa or transit papers, a type of visa issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entrance to that country
- Transit instrument, a specialized telescope for observing astronomical transits
- The Ford Transit, a van made by the Ford Motor Company
- Internet transit, one of the two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between Internet service providers
- Transit was a 1964 speculative fiction novel by Edmund Cooper
- Transit, a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who.
- Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
- Transit (SpongeCola's Album), the second album of Sponge Cola
- Transit (film), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II
- Transit (Staying-Alive film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about 4 people in different countries in the world.
- Transit (ship), the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower.
- Routing transit number, an identifying code used in transference of funds through banking institutions.
- Astrological transit, are the comparison and evaluation of planets in their current position in relation to those on a Natal Chart.
- TRANSIT is the name of a programme to promote interdisciplinary collaborative research at the University of York, UK here