transverse
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[edit] English
[edit] Adjective
transverse (comparative more transverse, superlative most transverse)
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
- (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
[edit] Translations
lying across
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not tangent
[edit] Antonyms
- (lying across): longitudinal
[edit] Latin
[edit] Adjective
transverse
- vocative masculine singular of transversus
