Transit

a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

a journey usually by ship

a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

cause or enable to pass through

pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)

make a passage or journey from one place to another

revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction