Transverse
[trænz'vɜːs;trɑːnz-;-ns-] or [træns'vɝs]
Definition
(a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
(n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
(v. t.) To overturn; to change.
(v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Cross.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Athwart, crosswise, across, rectangular
ANT:Parallel, rectilinear
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Definition
adj. turned or lying across.—adv. crosswise.—n. Transver′sal a line drawn across several others so as to cut them all.—adv. Transver′sally.—adj. Trans′versary.—adv. Transverse′ly in a transverse or cross direction.—n. Transver′sion.
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Examples
- They were of different forms, but that most commonly in use consisted of an upright post and a transverse movable beam on which the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The transverse channel through the breech is tapered, and the sliding breech block X is slightly wedge-shaped to fit tightly therein. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These iron plates were usually cast in lengths of six feet, and they were secured to transverse wooden sleepers by spikes and oaken pegs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The ass sometimes has very distinct transverse bars on its legs, like those on the legs of a zebra. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In Fig. 295 is represented a vertical longitudinal and also a vertical transverse section of a Pictet ice machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Induced interior transverse fissures can only develop in the track from the effects of preceding causes, either of which is no longer a mystery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Holmes cut the cord and removed the transverse bar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- These were transversed with the same colours of other heated bodies, and the latter were absorbed and rendered black. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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