Crossword clues for transverse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transversed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Transversing.]
To overturn; to change. [R.]
--C. Leslie.
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, v. t. [Pref. trans- + verse, n.
Cf. Transpose.]
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
[Obs.]
--Duke of Buckingham.
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, a. [L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse. See Verse, and cf. Traverse.] Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to 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.
Transverse \Trans"verse\, n.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction. 2 (context geometry of an intersection English) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. n. 1 Anything that is transverse or athwart. 2 (context geometry English) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse. v
1 (context transitive English) To overturn; to change. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
WordNet
adj. extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon" [syn: cross(a), transversal, thwartwise]
Wikipedia
Transverse may refer to:
- Transverse City, a 1989 album by Warren Zevon
- Transverse engine, an engine in which the crankshaft is oriented side-to-side relative to the wheels of the vehicle
- Transverse flute, a flute that is held horizontally
- Transverse mass, a particle physics quantity
- Transverse plane, the plane orthogonal to the anteroposterior or oral-aboral axis
- Transverse rotors, a type of rotorcraft in which there are two rotors mounted side by side
- Transverse wave, a wave that causes a disturbance in the medium perpendicular to the direction it advances
- Transversality theorem, a concept related to the intersection of manifolds in topology
- Transversality (mathematics), a notion in mathematics
- Transverse Island, an island on the east side of Stefansson Bay, off the coast of Enderby Land
Usage examples of "transverse".
Pigne speaks of a woman of thirty-eight, who in the eighth month of her sixth pregnancy was gored by a bull, the horn effecting a transverse wound 27 inches long, running from one anterior spine to the other.
Mursinna describes a hydrocele which measured 27 inches in its longest and 17 in its transverse axis.
To produce a transverse and yet preserve a true longitudinal bond, the bricks are laid in a definite arrangement of stretchers and headers.
English bond, to preserve the transverse and yet not destroy the longitudinal bond, it is frequently necessary to use half bricks.
There are fifteen main transverse girders to each shore span, with nine longitudinal girders between each pair.
Herbivora, or the vertical cutting one of the flesh-eating mammals, the rodent has a longitudinal motion given by the arrangement of the lower jaw, the condyle of which is not transverse, but parallel with the median line of the skull, and the glenoid fossa, or cavity into which it fits, and which is situated on the under side of the posterior root of the zygoma, is so open in front as to allow of a backwards and forwards sliding action.
Young speaks of a fetus which lay encysted between the laminae of the transverse mesocolon, and Highmore published a report of a fetus in a cyst communicating with the duodenum.
The pedicels of the hairs are divided by transverse partitions, and the secreting glands are formed of many cells, containing greenish matter with little globules of some substance.
Fuzzy Divide slide under the nose of the airboat from five thousand feet, and the suddenly dry look of North Beta replace the lush forests south of the transverse mountain range.
After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.
The cliff had been cut down to form an evenly sloping stone ramp and then roughened by transverse grooves, a fingerbreadth apart, to provide traction for the feet of men and animals.
Shortly afterward he caught sight of the gisant moving ahead of him through blue-white space, gliding in the direction from which the transverse bands of light seemed to flow.
Florendo cut, he found that this megacolon was jampacked from the base of the descending colon all the way up and half-way across the transverse colon.
Which is why the transverse personnel tubes located midline above the shuttle docking points are pressurized as is the engine control room, maintenance, crew quarters and the main control room.
Those built by the Omaha and Ponka were constructed in the following manner: The roof was supported by two series of vertical posts, forked at the top for the reception of the transverse connecting pieces of each series.