Transit
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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
- Theodolite, a specialized surveying instrument used to measure both horizontal and vertical angles
Transit may also refer to:
- 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
- Transmit (FTP client), an FTP program for Mac OS
- Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
- Transit (SpongeCola's Album), the sophomore album of the famed band Sponge Cola
- Transit (film), a 2004 AIDS-awareness film produced by MTV
- Transit (ship), the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower.
