transverse
/tɹænzˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
noun
- 1
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
- 2
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
verb
- 1
To overturn; to change.
- 2
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
adjective
- 1
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
- 2
(of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
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