transverse

adjcrosswise

adjacross
verbtravel across

Synonyms for transverse

adj crosswise

Word Origin & History

"lying across," early 15c. (earlier transversary, c.1400), from Latin transversus "turned or directed across," past participle of transvertere "turn across," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). The verb transvert is recorded from late 14c.

Example Sentences for transverse

In some quartz-mill sluices there are transverse riffle-bars.

The spores soon separate by a transverse partition and fall off.

“Yes, they did,” said the shepherd, looking aloft at the transverse stone.

They develop with a transverse fissure into which the bark ingrows.

But at last they built a transverse section that promised to hold.

The transverse ribs are there, of course, but in a modified form.

The whole system has, in fact, been changed from the transverse to the longitudinal.

For niello, and printing, a transverse cut was substituted for the blow.

The commonest forms of wound were the transverse or the oblique.

It consists of a number of transverse wires, broken at the middle.

transverse

Synonyms for transverse

cross

crossed

crosswise

crosswise/crossways

diagonal

transverse

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cross

crossed

crosswise

crosswise/crossways

diagonal

Synonyms for transverse

beam