Transit

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Transit may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Computing

  • Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers

Astronomy, navigation, and surveying

  • 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

  • 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

  • Transit, Canadian shoe retailer now operating under the name Spring
  • Transit hotel

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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