transverse
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Etymology
Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.
Pronunciation
- (adjective):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹanzˈvɜːs/, /tɹɑːnzˈvɜːs/, /tɹansˈvɜːs/, /tɹɑːnsˈvɜːs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /tɹænsˈvɝs/, /tɹænzˈvɝs/, /ˈtɹænsˌvɝs/, /ˈtɹænzˌvɝs/
- (noun):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹanz.vɜːs/, /ˈtɹɑːnz.vɜːs/, /ˈtɹans.vɜːs/, /ˈtɹɑːns.vɜːs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹænsˌvɝs/, /ˈtɹænzˌvɝs/
- (verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹanzˈvɜːs/, /tɹɑːnzˈvɜːs/, /tɹansˈvɜːs/, /tɹɑːnsˈvɜːs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /tɹænsˈvɝs/, /tɹænzˈvɝs/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Adjective
transverse (not comparable)
- 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.
- Antonym: longitudinal
- 1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:
- The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
- 2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:
- Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
- (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see w:Transversality (mathematics)#Definition.)
- (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
Derived terms
- costotransverse
- intertransverse
- nontransverse
- obliquotransverse
- occipitotransverse
- pretransverse
- sacrotransverse
- subtransverse
- transverse cervical artery
- transverse colon
- transverse facial artery
- transverse flow effect
- transverse flute
- transversely
- transverseness
- transverse plane
- transverse process
- transverse relaxation time
- transverse sinus
- transverse tubule
- transverse wave
- transversity
- transverso-, transvers-
Related terms
Translations
lying across
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not tangent
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Noun
transverse (plural transverses)
- Anything that is transverse or athwart.
- (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
Translations
anything transverse
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Verb
transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)
- To lie or run across; to cross.
- To traverse or thwart.
- To overturn.
- 1702, Charles Leslie, The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificate Stated, page 226:
- And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
- To alter or transform.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, page 68:
- In love, it is said, all stratagems are fair, and many little ladies transverse the axiom by applying it to discover the secrets of their friends.
- (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
- 1671, George Villiers, The Rehearsal, published 1770, act 1, scene 1, page 12:
- Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.
References
- “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “transverse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Adjective
transverse (plural transverses)
Further reading
- “transverse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 1
From trānsversus (“turned across”) + -ē (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /transˈu̯er.seː/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /transˈver.se/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrse]
Adverb
trānsversē (comparative trānsversius, superlative trānsversissimē)
- crosswise, transversely, obliquely
- Synonym: trānsversim
- c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 9.8.7:
- In columella horae ex analemmatos transverse describantur, menstruaeque lineae columella signentur.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /transˈu̯er.se/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈu̯ɛrs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /transˈver.se/, [t̪ränzˈvɛrse]
Participle
trānsverse
References
- “transverse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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