What is "traverses"

Usage examples of "traverses".

The soul, by successive deaths and births, traverses the universe, an everlasting traveller through the rounds of being and the worlds of space, a transient sojourner briefly inhabiting each.

Now the sun, in its apparent movement round the earth, traverses one degree in four minutes, or fifteen degrees an hour.

Captain of the gun will look after the traverses, tracks, and pivot-plates.

A slide with a slot through it, to show the graduation beneath, traverses upon it, and is kept from turning by a guide on the lower side.

The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.

Great Star, the Companion of Orion, who traverses the sky with Orion .

King, you are this Great Star, the Companion of Orion, who traverses the sky with Orion .

Daily the chief divinity, in robes of light, traverses the beaming zones of the blessed, where they hunt and fish, or plough and sow, reap and gather, in the Fields of the Sun on the banks of the heavenly Nile.

Nightly, arrayed in deep black from head to foot, he traverses the dismal zones of the damned, where they undergo appropriate retributions.

The evangelist, without alluding perhaps to any particular teachers or systems of these doctrines, but only to their general scope, traverses by his declarations partially the same ground of thought which they cover, stating dogmatically the positive facts as he apprehended them.

Matter on which Mass is based and that, as it changes from great to small and small to great, it traverses magnitude.

In other words, we have something which is to be described not as small or great but as the great-and-small: for it is at once a mass and a thing without magnitude, in the sense that it is the Matter on which Mass is based and that, as it changes from great to small and small to great, it traverses magnitude.

For instance, if a tiny ant walks around an extra space dimension that is curled up like a circle, it will find itself returning to the same position over and over again as it traverses complete circuits.