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
- A rare virus called transverse myelitis had attacked his spinal column.
- He was born with what is known as a transverse facial cleft, giving him the appearance of having two faces.
- Rarely, the baby may lie diagonally with the shoulder ready to come out first; this is called transverse lie (see Figure 11.3).
- Different films are available which shrink by a known amount from 10 - 35% across the film (known as the transverse direction) and by 20 -
- The longitudinal framework was divided by a series of rings, called transverse frames, into seventeen compartments containing fabric gasbags.
- The southern portion of this ecoregion is a Center of Plant Diversity known as the transverse dry belt, and in central French Guiana is another Center known as the Saul Region.
- This is often called the transverse tarsal joint, and it can, with the subordinate joints of the tarsus, replace the ankle-joint in a great measure when the latter has become ankylosed.
- WILLIAMS: I first came up with a planting technique called transverse planting, which involves laying the plant on its side and planting it horizontally, compared to the traditional vertical.
- Dr. Tyndall also alludes to another structure of the same kind, which he calls transverse structure, where the blue bands extend in crescent-shaped curves, more or less arched, across the surface of the glacier.
- The term transverse is equivalent to lateral, in flying machine parlance, but there is this distinction: Transverse has reference to a machine or object which, like the main planes of an aeroplane, are broader, (that is, -- from end to end) than their length, (from front to rear).
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