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transitable

[tran-si-tuh-buhl, -zi-]

adjective

capable of being crossed or passed over.

Origin:
1835–45; transit + -able

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transit (ˈtrænsɪt, ˈtrænz-)

—n
1.	a. the passage or conveyance of goods or people
	b. (as modifier): a transit visa
2.	a change or transition
3.	a route
4.	astronomy
	a. the passage of a celestial body or satellite across the face of a relatively larger body as seen from the earth
	b. the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian, caused by the earth's diurnal rotation
5.	astrology the passage of a planet across some special point on the zodiac
6.	in transit while being conveyed; during passage

—vb
7.	to make a transit through or over (something)
8.	astronomy to make a transit across (a celestial body or the meridian)
9.	to cause (the telescope of a surveying instrument) to turn over or (of such a telescope) to be turned over in a vertical plane so that it points in the opposite direction

[C15: from Latin transitus a going over, from transīre to pass over; see transient]

'transitable

—*adj*

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transitable

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