transverse

English

Adjective

transverse (comparative more transverse, superlative most transverse)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
2. (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

Translations

lying across

• Finnish: poikittainen (fi)
• Galician: transversal (gl)
• Korean: 가로 (ko)

• Russian: поперечный (ru) (poperečnyj)
• Spanish: transverso (es)

not tangent

• Finnish: transversaali (fi)

• Galician: transversal (gl)

Antonyms

• (lying across): longitudinal

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed)

1. (transitive) To overturn; to change.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Leslie to this entry?)

2. (transitive, obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Duke of Buckingham to this entry?)

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Latin

Adjective

transverse

1. vocative masculine singular of transversus