English Explanatory Dictionary

transverse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. 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.
  2. Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
  3. (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .)
  4. Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
noun
  1. Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
  2. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
verb
  1. To lie or run across; to cross.
  2. To traverse or thwart.
  3. To overturn.
  4. To alter or transform.
  5. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

transverse transverses transversing transversed

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.

Antonyms

longitudinal

Related words

transversal transversion

Derived words

costotransverse intertransverse nontransverse obliquotransverse occipitotransverse pretransverse sacrotransverse subtransverse transverse cervical artery transverse colon transverse facial artery transverse flow effect transverse flute transversely transverseness transverse plane transverse process transverse relaxation time transverse rib transverse sinus transverse tubule transverse wave transversity transverso- transvers-

Translations

Māori: pae
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