different between transient vs transit

English

Etymology

From stem of Latin transiens, present participle of transire (“to go over, to pass”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æn.zi.?nt/

Adjective

transient (comparative more transient, superlative most transient)

1. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

   a transient pleasure
2. Remaining for only a brief time.

   a transient view of a landscape

   a transient disease

3. (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
4. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
5. Occasional; isolated; one-off
6. Passing through; passing from one person to another.
7. (music) Intermediate.
8. (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Synonyms

• (passing): passing, transitory, temporary
• (brief): brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious

Antonyms

• (passing): permanent
• (brief): permanent, inveterate
• (mathematics): recurrent
• (philosophy): immanent

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

transient (plural transients)

1. Something that is transient.
2. (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
3. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
4. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

     Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.

5. A homeless person.

Synonyms

• (traveller): itinerant, migrant, traveller
• (homeless person): homeless

Translations

Anagrams

• instanter, intranets

English

Etymology

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) +? ire (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
• (UK, now rare) IPA^(key): /?t???n.z?t/
• Rhymes: -ænz?t

Noun

transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
2. 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

3. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
4. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
5. (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.
6. (Britain) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

   Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.

7. (Canada, US) Public transport system.

   I always take the transit to work.

Derived terms

• transit lounge

Translations

Verb

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

1. To pass over, across or through something.
2. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
3. (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
4. (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.

Translations

Related terms

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

References

Further reading

• transit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• transit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Tristan, startin', straint

French

Verb

transit

1. third-person singular present indicative of transir
2. third-person singular past historic of transir

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch transit, from French transit, from Latin tr?nse?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?trans?t]
• Hyphenation: tran?sit

Noun

transit (first-person possessive transitku, second-person possessive transitmu, third-person possessive transitnya)

1. transit,
   1. (trading) the conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
   2. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

Alternative forms

• transito

Further reading

• “transit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Noun

transit m (plural transic)

1. transit

Latin

Verb

tr?nsit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of tr?nse?