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Transit vs Exit - What's the difference?

transit | exit |

As nouns the difference between transit and exit

is that transit is the act of passing over, across, or through something while exit is a way out.

As verbs the difference between transit and exit

is that transit is to pass over, across or through something while exit is to go out.

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
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    exit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A way out.
  • He was looking for the exit and got lost .
  • A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
  • She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside .
  • The action of leaving.
  • He made his exit at the opportune time .
  • Death.
  • The untimely exit of a consummate politician .

    Synonyms

    * (a way out) egress, outgang, outway * (the action of leaving) egress, outgoing, departure

    Derived terms

    * emergency exit * exit interview * exit policy * exit poll * exit program * exit strategy * exit wound * fire exit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To go out
  • To leave
  • To die
  • See also

    * exit stage left ----