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adjective

Transverse adj. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; often opposed to longitudinal.

Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci.

Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.

noun

Transverse n.

Anything that is transverse or athwart.

(Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

verb

Transverse v. t. (past & past part. transversed; pres. part. transversing) To overturn; to change. (R.)

Transverse v. t. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... point at cricket, not quite so far removed. Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. The sides met midway of a marshy ground, where a couple of flat and shelving banks, formed for a broad new road, good for ten abreast—counting a step of the slopes—ran transverse; and the order of the game was to clear the bank and drive the enemy on to the frozen ditch-water. Miss Vincent heard in the morning from the sister of little Collett of the great engagement coming off; she was moved by curiosity, and so the young ladies of her establishment beheld the young gentlemen ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the Rifles and Irish Fusiliers had closed up and become merged in the firing line. Slowly, and by the advances of small parties at a time, the attackers gained ground, principally by creeping along the transverse wall which afforded cover from the enemy on Dundee Hill, Helped by the incessant fire of the artillery, which at 11.30 a.m. moved up to the coalfields railway, the infantry gradually collected behind the second ...

— The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War - With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland • Cecil Francis Romer and Arthur Edward Mainwaring

... was said. The way led to the top of one of those low transverse swells that conceal the middle distance without actually breaking the surface of the veldt. In the corresponding depression beyond now could be discerned a wandering slender line ...

— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

... by the epiglottis. The pharynx is then raised and opened by its muscles in the same way as a sac that is to be filled is lifted up and its mouth dilated. Upon the mouthful being received, it is forced downwards by the transverse muscles, and then carried farther by the longitudinal ones. Yet all these motions, though executed by different and distinct organs, are performed harmoniously, and in such order that they seem to constitute but a single motion and act, ...

— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various

... of considerable breadth, rising in some instances to a height of 12,000 feet or more above the enclosed plain. This rampart is rarely continuous, but is generally interrupted by gaps, crossed by transverse valleys and passes, and broken by more recent craters and depressions. As a rule, the area within the circumvallation (usually termed "the floor") is only slightly, if at all, lower than the region outside: ...

— The Moon - A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features • Thomas Gwyn Elger

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