How to pronounce transit
American English pronunciation
TRAN-zit
- IPA
- /ˈtɹænzɪt/
- Syllables
- TRAN · zit (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What transit means
Most people know transit in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A planet's passage across the face of the sun
In a sentence: Through a telescope with a safe sun filter, we watched the transit of Venus as a tiny black dot.
Where it comes from: It comes from Latin transire, to go across, from trans, across, and ire, to go.
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