Usually means: Crosses, moves across or through.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word traverses:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. traverses: Merriam-Webster
  2. traverses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. traverses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Traverse's, Traverses, traverses: Wordnik
  5. traverses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. traverses: Wiktionary
  7. traverses: Dictionary.com
  8. traverses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. traverses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. traverses: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. traverses: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. traverses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. traverses: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Traverse)

noun:  (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
noun:  (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
noun:  (obsolete) A screen or partition.
noun:  Something that thwarts or obstructs.
noun:  (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
noun:  (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
noun:  (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
noun:  (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
noun:  (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
noun:  (nautical) A traverse board.
verb:  (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
verb:  To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
verb:  (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
verb:  (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
verb:  (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
verb:  To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
verb:  To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
verb:  (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
verb:  (law) To deny formally.
verb:  (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
adverb:  athwart; across; crosswise
adjective:  Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
noun:  A surname from French.
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