passage transit | a journey usually by ship, the outward passage tookdays |
stop stoppage | the act of stopping something, the third baseman made some remarkable stops, his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood |
strike work stoppage | a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions, the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled |
blockage block closure occlusion stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
declinometer transit declinometer | an instrument for measuring magnetic declination |
public transit | a public transportation system for moving passengers |
rapid transit mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
theodolite transit | a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod |
transit instrument | a telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian |
transit line | a line providing public transit |
transportation system transportation transit | a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods |
bank identification number BIN ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
embargo trade embargo trade stoppage | a government order imposing a trade barrier |
transit zone | a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean, includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers |
arrest check halt hitch stay stop stoppage | the state of inactivity following an interruption, the negotiations were in arrest, held them in check, during the halt he got some lunch, the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow, he spent the entire stop in his seat |
transit | cause or enable to pass through, The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day |
transit | revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction |
transit | pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place), The comet will transit on September |
transit pass through move through pass across pass over | make a passage or journey from one place to another, The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs, Some travelers pass through the desert |