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Transverse

Trans-verse′

,
Adj.
[L.
transversus
, p. p. of
transvertere
to turn on direct across;
trans
across +
vertere
to turn: cf. F.
transverse
. See
Verse
, and cf.
Traverse
.]
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.

Trans′verse

,
Noun.
1.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2.
(Geom.)
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Trans-verse′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Transversed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Transversing
.]
To overturn; to change.
[R.]
C. Leslie.

Trans-verse′

,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
trans-
+
verse
, n. Cf.
Transpose
.]
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
[Obs.]
Duke of Buckingham.

Webster 1828 Edition

Transverse

TRANSVERSE

,
Adj.
transvers'. [L. transversus; trans and versus, verto.]
1.
Lying or being across or in a cross direction; as a transverse diameter of axis. Transverse lines are the diagonals of a square or parallelogram. Lines which intersect perpendiculars, are also called transverse.
2.
In botany, a transverse partition, in a pericarp, is at right angles with the valves, as in a silique.

Definition 2024

transverse

transverse

English

Adjective

transverse ‎(comparative more transverse, superlative most transverse)

  1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
  2. (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

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Noun

transverse ‎(plural transverses)

  1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

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Verb

transverse ‎(third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed)

  1. (transitive) To overturn; to change.
    • Rev. Charles Leslie
      And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
    • 1671, Villiers, George, The Rehearsal, published 1770, Act 1, Scene 1:
      Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.

Latin

Adjective

transverse

  1. vocative masculine singular of transversus

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