transverse

/tษนรฆnzหˆvษœห(ษน)s/

IPA: /T R AE0 N Z V ER1 S/

noun
  1. 1

    Anything that is transverse or athwart.

  2. 2

    The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

verb
  1. 1

    To overturn; to change.

  2. 2

    To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

adjective
  1. 1

    Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

  2. 2

    (of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transverse