transit

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
transit/ˈtranzɪt/

▶noun

• 1 the carrying of people or things from one place to another.

  ■ N. Amer. the conveyance of passengers on public transport.

• 2 an act of passing through or across a place.

  ■ Astronomy the passage of a planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon across the face of a planet.

▶verb (transits, transiting, transited) pass across or through.

– origin ME: from L. transitus, from transire ‘go across’.