meaning of transverse
1. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
2. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
3. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
4. To overturn; to change.
5. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
6. extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse
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Related Words
transverse | transverse colon | transverse flute | transverse muscle of abdomen | transverse process | transverse sinus | transversed | transversely |
