different between transit vs transition

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?

English

Etymology

From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?nz?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /t?æn?z???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

transition (countable and uncountable, plural transitions)

1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
3. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4. (music) A change of key.
5. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
6. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
7. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
8. (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
9. (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
10. (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
11. (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.

Usage notes

In the United Kingdom education system, the noun is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next. Contrast with transfer which is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school.In the United States education system the, noun is used to define a move from a one phase of an Independent Educational Program (IEP) to another specifically regarding the child's or adult's progress from more or less special educational support to greater independent living.

Translations

Verb

transition (third-person singular simple present transitions, present participle transitioning, simple past and past participle transitioned)

1. (intransitive) To make a transition.
2. (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.

   The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.

3. (intransitive, LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
   • 2009, Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families, page 71:

     If the transitioning person leaves the family home, there will be moving costs, and costs associated with the acquisition of another home or the renting of an apartment. If the non-transitioning spouse leaves the family home, […]

Related terms

• transit
• transitional
• transitionary
• transitionist
• transition element
• transition metal
• transition strip

Translations

Anagrams

• nitrations

French

Etymology

From Latin tr?nsiti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

transition f (plural transitions)

1. transition

Further reading

• “transition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).