traverse
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See also traversé
See also traversé
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin trans across + versus turned, perfect passive participle of vertere, turn
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traverse (plural traverses)
- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (military) In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
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to traverse (third-person singular simple present traverses, present participle traversing, simple past and past participle traversed)
- (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- He will have to traverse the mountain before he gets to the other side.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.
- (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
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to travel across, often under difficult conditions
computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
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- IPA: /tʁa.vɛʁs/
[edit] Etymology 1
Vulgar Latin traversa, feminine of traversus.
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traverse f. (plural traverses)
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Inflected forms.
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traverse
- first-person singular present indicative of traverser.
- third-person singular present indicative of traverser.
- first-person singular present subjunctive of traverser.
- first-person singular present subjunctive of traverser.
- second-person singular imperative of traverser.
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traverse f.
- Feminine plural form of traverso
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traverse f.
- Plural form of traversa.