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adjective
1.
lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
2.
3.
(of an automotive engine) mounted with the crankshaft oriented sideways.
noun
4.
something that is transverse.
5.
Nautical. web frame.
6.
Geometry. transverse axis.
7.
a city road that cuts through a park or other area of light traffic; shortcut.
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Transverse
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Related forms
trans·verse·ly, adverb
sub·trans·verse, adjective
sub·trans·verse·ly, adverb
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Example Sentences
- The second section, the transverse colon, crosses the upper abdomen to the left side.
- If only they had had some sort of intellectual property rights over the front wheel drive transverse engine concept.
- Photons are transverse excitations of the e/m field, ie, deviations from the mean value of the field.
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World English Dictionary
| transverse (trænzˈvɜːs) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | crossing from side to side; athwart; crossways |
| 2. | geometry denoting the axis that passes through the foci of a hyperbola |
| 3. | (of a flute, etc) held almost at right angles to the player's mouth, so that the breath passes over a hole in the side to create a vibrating air column within the tube of the instrument |
| 4. | astronomy another word for tangential |
| —n | |
| 5. | a transverse piece or object |
| [C16: from Latin transversus, from transvertere to turn across, from | |
| trans'versely | |
| —adv | |
| trans'verseness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
transverse
"lying across," 1590s (earlier transversary, c.1400), from L. transversus "turned or directed across," pp. of transvertere "turn across," from trans- "across" + vertere "to turn" (see versus). The verb transvert is recorded from early 15c.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
transverse trans·verse (trāns-vûrs', trānz-, trāns'vûrs', trānz'-)
adj.
Lying across the long axis of the body or of a part.
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