transverse
IPA: trænzvˈɝs
noun
- Anything that is transverse or athwart.
- (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
verb
- To lie or run across; to cross.
- To traverse or thwart.
- To overturn.
- To alter or transform.
- (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
adjective
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
- (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see w:Transversality (mathematics).)
- (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
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Examples of "transverse" in Sentences
- The river is transverse one town.
- The hallux usually moves in the transverse plane.
- The transverse ridges are strong and often bifurcate.
- A transverse line passes over the roof of the rostrum.
- The deck is also preloaded in the transverse direction.
- The inlet is transverse to the axis of the flow passage.
- The body is resiliently compressible transverse to the channel.
- The direction of magnetization is transverse to the principal dimension.
- The light beam is modulated as it crosses the path of the transverse hole.
- The direction of flow of the exhaust gas is transverse to that of the adsorbent.