Transit
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Transit may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Film
[edit]- Transit (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film
- Transit (1986 film), a Canadian short film
- Transit (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four 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
- Transit (2018 film), a German film
Literature
[edit]- Transit (Cooper novel), a 1964 science fiction by Edmund Cooper
- Transit (Seghers novel), a 1944 novel by Anna Seghers
- Transit (Aaronovitch novel), a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who
Music
[edit]- Transit (band), an American emo band from Boston, Massachusetts
- Transit (Ira Stein and Russel Walder album), an album by acoustic duo Ira Stein and Russel Walder, released 1986
- 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
[edit]Computing
[edit]- Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers
Astronomy, navigation, and surveying
[edit]- Transit (astronomy), the apparent motion of one celestial body across the face of another celestial body or meridian
- 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
[edit]- Transit (app), a mobile application for public transportation trip planning
- Transit bus, a type of bus used on shorter-distance public transport bus services
- Public transport systems, sometimes called 'mass transit', 'public transit', or simply '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
- TransIT, a bus service in Frederick County, Maryland
- Transit passage
Other uses
[edit]- Transit, Canadian shoe retailer now operating under the name Spring
- Transit hotel
See also
[edit]- Transat (disambiguation)
- Transition (disambiguation)
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- Transport or transportation