Word Meanings - TRANSVERSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp,

Additional info about word: TRANSVERSE

Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard. (more info) on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse.

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