A large-scale transportation system in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles.

plural of mass transit

(of a verb in an Algonquian language) Belonging to the class of transitive verbs that take animate direct objects.

plural of public transit

(US) Public transport.

A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.

(Australia, New Zealand) A freeway lane reserved for vehicles with a set minimum number of occupants.

(databases) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.

A bus which carries people across a city.

(grammar, of a verb) Taking an indirect object.