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▸ adjective:  Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
▸ adjective:  (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
▸ adjective:  (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics).)
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
▸ noun:  Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
▸ noun:  (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
▸ verb:  To lie or run across; to cross.
▸ verb:  To traverse or thwart.
▸ verb:  To overturn.
▸ verb:  To alter or transform.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.





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