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

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