Transverse

Transverse - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• (adv.) In a transverse manner.