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transit
  1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
  2. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
  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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. (US) Public transport system.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “The tapes for the first week's filming went missing in transit to London.”
      “Galula's first cultural shock did not occur during his transit from Tunisia to Morocco, but rather later, during his transit from the Maghreb to metropolitan France.”
      “He proceeded to give a philosophical account of the change which takes place in the body, in its transit from a state of wakefulness to that of sleep.”
transient
  1. Something which 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 which 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
  5. An unhoused person
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Like a wandering transient, I didn't fit in the world anymore but wasn't really cleaned up enough for heaven.”
      “Generally, Dio continues to portray himself ironically as a useless transient. He lives among the belligerent barbarians unharmed and ignored, since he is by himself, unarmed, unskilled, and without purpose.”
transience
  1. The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
  2. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It transcends transience and therefore reconciles us to the most fundamental condition of our existence.”
      “H wrote about the pangs of love, the hypocrisy of the rich, the perils of marriage, the transience of happiness and many other topics.”
      “He has crafted a plot based on the principle of ephemerality, of transience, of allowing a dream to exist only to have it withdrawn.”
transitivity
  1. (grammar) The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.
  2. (mathematics) The property of being transitive.
  3. Examples:
    1. “One can determine to what degree cliques are present by measuring the amount of clustering, also sometimes referred to as transitivity.”
      “I especially like the discussions of behavioral economics, transitivity, endowment effects, and the like.”
      “Some defenders of transitivity have replied that our intuitions about the intransitivity of causation in these examples are misleading.”
transitoriness
  1. The state or quality of being transitory.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Most of the works on show have this unified tone of transitoriness and uncertainty.”
      “A sense of the mutability and transitoriness of the world is intensified by the departures, behind the wall, of a sailing ship and a steam-train.”
      “The transitoriness of life, introspection and spiritual pursuits, are his eternal themes.”
transitiveness
  1. The quality of being transitive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is straightforward, for example, to describe arbitrary patterns of transitiveness, functionality, etc., in Common Logic.”
      “Per se the question of transitiveness belongs to the idea of the verb itself, not to that of voice.”
      “Where transitiveness results from the substantial meaning, it seems to presume a subject complement.”
transitivization
  1. (grammar) Conversion to a transitive form.
transientness
  1. The state of being transient.
transiency
  1. Transience.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The challenges of student transiency for rural schools and communities in the era of No Child Left Behind.”
      “Over many of them there hangs an aura of impermanence, transiency, uncertainty.”
      “But besides this transiency external to us, John finds a corresponding transiency within us.”
transitivities
  1. plural of transitivity
transiences
transiencies
transients
  1. plural of transient
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Even the gang members are perfect, sipping beers in their cheap, showy suits against a background teeming with transients and bums.”
      “Future amenities will include banks, restaurants, a conference center, and an apartelle for transients.”
      “Some were transients, headed north after spending the winter in the monte and selva of Mexico, Central America and South America.”
transits
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