transverse

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Adjective

transverse

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
2. (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

Antonyms

• (lying across) longitudinal

Related terms

• transversality
• transversally
• transversely
• transversion
• transversity

Translations

• German: querliegend
• Portuguese: transverso
• Russian: попере́чный
• Spanish: transverso

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Verb

transverse (transverses, present participle transversing; past and past participle transversed)

1. (transitive) To overturn; to change.

   • And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?

2. (transitive, obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

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