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Transit vs Entrepot - What's the difference?

transit | entrepot |

As a verb transit

is .

As a noun entrepot is

.

transit

English

Noun

  • The act of passing over, across, or through something.
  • * Burke
    • In France you are now in the transit from one form of government to another.
  • The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
    • the transit of goods through a country
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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

    • Related terms

    * transience * transiency * transient * transition * transitional * transitionary * transitionist * transitive * transitively * transitory

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    entrepot

    English

    (wikipedia entrepôt)

    Alternative forms

    * entrepot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A warehouse, depot.
  • A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution.
  • A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, 20th Oct 2012, Immigration: The Tories’ barmiest policy
    • The country has, in effect, installed a “keep out” sign over the white cliffs of Dover. Even as Mr Cameron defends the City of London as a global financial centre, and takes planeloads of business folk on foreign trips, his government ratchets up measures that would turn an entrepôt into a fortress.