| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| 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. |
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 | |
transverse trans·verse (trāns-vûrs', trānz-, trāns'vûrs', trānz'-)
adj.
Lying across the long axis of the body or of a part.