LateMiddle English, fromLatintrānsversus(“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”).Doublet oftransversal.
- (adjective, verb):
- (noun):
- Rhymes:-ɜː(ɹ)s
transverse (notcomparable)
- Situated or lyingacross;side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction;perpendicular orslanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified withmovement across areas.
- Antonym:longitudinal
1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, inTrains Illustrated, page660:The units havetransverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, inRAIL, number977, page12:Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather thantransverse seating.
- (anatomy) Made atright angles to the longaxis of the body.
- (geometry)(of anintersection) Nottangent, so that anondegenerateangle is formed between the two thingsintersecting.(For the general definition, see
Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.) - (obsolete) Not in direct line ofdescent;collateral.
lying across
- Bulgarian:напречен (bg)(naprečen),пресичащ (bg)(presičašt)
- Catalan:transversal (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:橫 /横 (zh)(héng)
- Czech:příčný (cs)
- Estonian:risti-rästi,põigiti
- Finnish:poikittainen (fi)
- Galician:transversal (gl)
- German:querliegend,quer liegend,quergerichtet,quer gerichtet,quer-,querlaufend,schräg (de),diagonal (de)
- Korean:가로 (ko)(garo)
- Latin:transversus
- Latvian:šķērss,šķērsenisks
- Maori:rīpeka,hīpae
- Old English:þweorh
- Polish:poprzeczny (pl)
- Portuguese:transverso (pt)
- Russian:попере́чный (ru)(poperéčnyj)
- Sanskrit:जिह्म (sa)(jihma)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:prěcny
- Spanish:transverso (es)
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transverse (pluraltransverses)
- Anything that istransverse orathwart, such as a road or a ship'sweb frame.
- (geometry) Thelonger, ortransverse,axis of anellipse.
transverse (third-person singular simple presenttransverses,present participletransversing,simple past and past participletransversed)(transitive)
- Tolie orrunacross; tocross.
- Totraverse orthwart.
- Tooverturn.
1702,Charles Leslie,The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificate Stated[1],page226:And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered ortransversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
- Toalter ortransform.
- (obsolete) Tochange fromprose intoverse, or from verse into prose.
1671,George Villiers,The Rehearsal[3], published1770, act 1, scene 1,page12:Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, Itransverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.
transverse (pluraltransverses)
- transverse
Fromtrānsversus(“turned across”) +-ē(“-ly”,adverbial suffix).
trānsversē (comparativetrānsversius,superlativetrānsversissimē)
- crosswise,transversely,obliquely
- Synonym:trānsversim
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
trānsverse
- vocativemasculinesingular oftrānsversus
- “transverse”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transverto”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transverse”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
