Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transverse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transversed}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transversing}.]
To overturn; to change. [R.] --C. Leslie.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, v. t. [Pref. trans- + verse, n.
Cf.{Transpose}.]
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
[Obs.] --Duke of Buckingham.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, a. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transverse \Trans"verse\, n.
1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
transverse
adj : extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at
right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be
all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway
ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations";
"transverse colon" [syn: {cross(a)}, {crossing(a)}, {transversal},
{thwartwise}]
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