Thesaurus: transverse

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1. a. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
2. n. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
3. n. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
4. v. t. To overturn; to change.
5. v. t. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
6. adj. extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
7. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: 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. 1. Anything that is transverse or athwart. 2. (Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse. To overturn; to change. [R.] C. Leslie. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.
8. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; --often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse orhyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci.-- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, atright angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.
9. j:85/n:15 s extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis