What does "transverse" mean?
Transverse: Anything that is transverse or athwart.
Additional senses
- 2.(Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
- 3.To overturn; to change. [R.] C. Leslie.
- 4.To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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