Transverse Definition

trăns-vûrs, trănz-, trănsvûrs, trănz-
adjective
Lying, situated, placed, etc. across; crossing from side to side.
Webster's New World
Designating the axis that passes through the foci of a hyperbola, or the part of that axis between the vertices.
Webster's New World

(geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

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Synonyms:
noun
A transverse part, beam, etc.
Webster's New World
A transverse axis.
Webster's New World
verb

To overturn; to change.

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Other Word Forms of Transverse

Noun

Singular:
transverse
Plural:
transverses

Origin of Transverse

  • Latin trānsversus from past participle of trānsvertere to turn across trāns trans- vertere to turn wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Transverse Sentence Examples

  • If the coenosteum of Millepora be broken across, each pore-canal (perhaps better termed a polypcanal) is seen to be interrupted by a series of transverse partitions, representing successive periods of growth with separation from the underlying dead portions.

  • Across the arc is a transverse or radial magnetic field, and the electrodes are connected by an oscillatory circuit consisting of a condenser and inductance.

  • The two long ovarian sacs communicate with each other by a transverse bridge before uniting to form the terminal canal.

  • The radular teeth are of several different kinds in each transverse row.

  • Into each ovarian sac behind the transverse junction opens a slender tube, which is greatly coiled, and, in its turn, opens into a spherical "spermathecal sac."

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