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English Dictionary: transverse	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): cross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwise
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 \Transverse"\, 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.