transit

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The "last half mile" of transit, as it were.

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Quick take

a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of transit gathered in one view.

noun

a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

noun

a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

noun

a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for transit.

noun

a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

noun

a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

noun

a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days"

verb

make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;" "Some travelers pass through the desert"

verb

pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place); "The comet will transit on September 11"

verb

revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

verb

cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"

Example sentences

The "last half mile" of transit, as it were.

The other cities in the Bay Area need to step up and provide the type of urban housing close to transit that people want.

Public transit doesn't work in a low-density suburb larger than some states in New England.

"He was carrying them on a flight between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, and was detained while in transit at Heathrow.

Of course if someone tried to route all that traffic outside the network into the transit network it would be pretty obvious.

These were some of the most dangerous people in the entire country, comparing their danger to the danger of industry or automobile transit is just silly.

People may be willing to drive farther to work, increasing sprawl, and also dropping the quantity demanded for housing near the core, dropping prices.- public transit disappears?

In typical fashion, the left-hand bans all development that would allow public transit to be usable and the right-hand insists that people should stop driving and take public transit.

This is quite significant from an urban planning perspective as it means that short haul transit or car trips have to be accommodated for a majority of those people who want to use the system.

Rate regulations, forbidding surge pricing, requiring cabs to serve the whole city, etc, arise from cities treating cabs as a part of the overall municipal transit infrastructure.

The idea seems fundamentally sound, so I imagine it will keep resurfacing until pragmatism overcomes the bias and stereotypes surrounding mass transit.

The most hilarious one on my phone is a local transit app, which is sadly very useful so I'm keeping it, with an irate developer who uses push notifications to angrily respond to negative reviews in the App store.

If you haven't got time to read the whole thing, consider these sentences:In fact the FBI agents even admitted their intention to collect passwords in transit so they could access emails protected by Lavabits encrypted storage feature.

Many newer suburbs are being built with walkability in mind, usually with a small commercial core with groceries, a coffee shop, laundry and a few restaurants, many have mass transit shuttle stops and commuter lots nearby and with telecommuting becoming more common, there's less of a need to make the daily drive.