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The definition of transverse is to go from side to side or to extend across something.
(adjective)When a beam goes across your entire deck, this is an example of a situation where the beam transverses the deck.
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See transverse in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
- lying, situated, placed, etc. across; crossing from side to side
- Geom. designating the axis that passes through the foci of a hyperbola, or the part of that axis between the vertices
Origin: L transversus, pp. of transvertere: see traverse
noun
- a transverse part, beam, etc.
- Geom. a transverse axis
Related Forms:
- transversely adverb
See transverse in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
Situated or lying across; crosswise.
noun Something, such as a part or beam, that is transverse.
Origin:
Origin: Latin trānsversus
Origin: , from past participle of trānsvertere, to turn across
Origin: : trāns, trans-
Origin: + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- trans·verseˈly adverb
- trans·verseˈness noun
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