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Transit may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film
- Transit (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film
- Transit (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four different people in countries in the world
- Transit (2006 film), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II
- Transit (2012 film), an American thriller
- Transit (2013 film), a Filipino independent film
Literature
- Transit (Cooper novel), a 1964 science fiction by Edmund Cooper
- Transit Visa (novel), title also translated as just Transit, a 1944 novel by Anna Seghers
- Transit (Aaronovitch novel), a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who
Music
- Transit (band), an American emo band from Boston, Massachusetts
- Transit (Sponge Cola album)
- Transit (A. J. Croce album)
- Transit Transit, an album by the band Autolux
- Transit (rapper), real name Dan Bennett, Canadian indie hip-hop artist
Science and technology
Computing
- Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers
- Transit Format, a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written in different programming languages
Astronomy, navigation, and surveying
- Astronomical transit, the apparent motion of one celestial body across the face of another celestial body or meridian
- In surveying, to transit the telescope means to turn the telescope about the trunnion axis, thus turning the telescope through the vertical plane
- A theodolite capable of performing the operation described above
- Transit telescope, a special-purpose telescope mounted so as to point only at objects transiting the local meridian
- A specialized type of theodolite used in surveying
- Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
- Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line
Transportation
- Transport or Transportation
- Public transport systems, sometimes called 'mass transit', in which passengers are carried in large numbers using shared vehicles.
- Ford Transit, a Ford Motor Company van
- Transit (ship), the name given to the three sailing vessels designed and built for Captain Richard Hall Gower
Other uses
- Routing transit number, an identifying code used in transferring funds through banking institutions
- Transit, Canadian shoe retailer now operating under the name Spring
See also
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