transit

Buses and subways

Transit is movement from one place to another, especially the passage of people or goods through an intermediate point: goods damaged in transit, passengers in transit to connecting flights.

Public transit refers to buses, trains, subways, and other shared transportation systems.

In astronomy, a transit occurs when a smaller celestial body passes across a larger one, as when Venus transits the sun.

public

bus

Large passenger vehicle

  • subwayUnderground transit passage
  • metroUrban rail transit
  • tramUrban rail vehicle

streetcar · trolley · commuter · passenger · route · fare · station · stop · schedule · timetable

freight

cargo

Transported goods

carrier · shipping · freight · transshipment · customs · warehouse · container · intermodal · bonded · port

passage

crossing

Point where paths intersect

corridor · waypoint · thoroughfare · passageway · checkpoint · border · visa · layover · stopover · connecting

eclipse

solar

Of the star

totality · path · shadow · obscuration · corona · annular · partial · syzygy · celestial · alignment

astronomical

exoplanet

Planet outside our system

Kepler · photometry · detection · dip · ingress · egress · occultation · spectroscopy

surveying

theodolite

Precision angle-measuring instrument

leveling · triangulation · benchmark · traverse · measurement · angle · alignment · grade · elevation · stadia

Categories
Opposites
movement vs. stillness

transitstasis

State of inactivity

stagnation · stillness · immobility · motionlessness · inertia

passage vs. obstruction

transitblockage

Obstruction halting movement

obstruction · barrier · hindrance · impediment · stoppage

public vs. private transportation

transitcar ownership

Legally having a vehicle

private car · paratransit · rideshare · taxi · automobile

Phrases
Family

transfer, transport, transition, transportation, transient, transferred, transitory, transfers, transferring

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