Transcend vs Transit - What's the difference?
transcend | transit |
to pass beyond the limits of something.
* Francis Bacon
to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To climb; to mount.
The act of passing over, across, or through something.
* Burke
The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
(navigation) an imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
(British) a van. (rfex)
(Internet) to carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
To pass over, across or through something
To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction
(astronomy) To make a transit
As verbs the difference between transcend and transit
is that transcend is to pass beyond the limits of something while transit is to pass over, across or through something.As a noun transit is
the act of passing over, across, or through something.transcend
English
Verb
(en verb)- such popes as shall transcend their limits
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- (Howell)
Derived terms
* transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcendingExternal links
* *transit
English
Noun
- In France you are now in the transit from one form of government to another.
- the transit of goods through a country
