transited
- 1Simple past and past participle of transit.
The freighter transited the canal in under twelve hours.
Mercury transited the sun, appearing as a tiny black dot against its surface.
Note
One spelling does double duty here. It is the plain past (the ship transited the strait) and, after have or had, the perfect (the ship had transited the strait). Because transit can take a direct object, such as a canal or a network's traffic, the participle also forms passives: traffic transited by another carrier. The same holds for an instrument transited about its horizontal axis to reverse its direction. Without an object, it simply records that a transit was made.
transited is a form of transit
transit, verb: To travel across, over, or through something, such as a region, passage, or body of water. Full entry
- Forms
- transittransits he/she/ittransiting -ing formtransited past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- transit → transited: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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