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adj
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Antonyms: longitudinal
adj
Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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adj
(of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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adj
Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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noun
Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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verb
To lie or run across; to cross.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To traverse or thwart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To overturn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To alter or transform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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adjective satellite
extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cross(a), transversal, thwartwise
Antonyms: none provided
History
Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.
Across languages
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