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Entry 5 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Transverse

/trăn-zvẽrs'/ · Trans·verse · IPA /ˈtɹænsˌvɝs/
01 a. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
  1. 1.
    Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
Phrases & compounds
Transverse axis — that axis which passes through the foci.
Transverse partition — a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.
02 n. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  1. 1.
    Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  2. 2.
    The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.(Geom.)
03 v. t. To overturn; to change.
imp. & p. p. Transversed; p. pr. & vb. n. Transversing
  1. 1.
    To overturn; to change.[R.]
04 v. t. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
  1. 1.
    To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.[Obs.]