transverse meaning
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- Transverse may refer to:
- Transverse City, a 1989 album by Warren Zevon
- Transverse engine, an engine in which the crankshaft is oriented side-to-side relative to the wheels of the vehicle
- Transverse flute, a flute that is held horizontally
- Transverse mass, a particle physics quantity
- Transverse plane, the plane orthogonal to the anteroposterior or oral-aboral axis
- Transverse rotors, a type of rotorcraft in which there are two rotors mounted side by side
- Transverse wave, a wave that causes a disturbance in the medium perpendicular to the direction it advances
- NounPLtransversesPREtrans-SUF-verse
- VerbSGtransversesPRtransversingPT, PPtransversed
- (transitive) To overturn; to change.
- (transitive, obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
- (transitive) To overturn; to change.
- AdjectiveCOMmore transverseSUPmost transverse
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
- (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.
- Such angular distances imply undecelerated ejecta knot transverse velocities of 15,600 and 12,700 km/s respectively, assuming an explosion date ~1670 AD and a distance of 3.4 kpc.
- Dephasing of transverse magnetization due to the magnetic field inhomogeneities at boundary surfaces of intrapulmonary air and liquid or solid tissue are refocusable through the use of spin echoes.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of transverse in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "transverse" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.