5 definitions found
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 1.6 [wn]:
transverse
adj : extending or lying across in a crosswise direction; "cross
members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall
the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal
vibrations" [syn: {cross(a)}, {crossing(a)}, {transversal},
{thwartwise}]
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