Usually means: Crossing or lying across something.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word transverse:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. transverse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. transverse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transverse: Collins English Dictionary
  4. transverse: Vocabulary.com
  5. Transverse, transverse: Wordnik
  6. transverse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. transverse: Wiktionary
  8. transverse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. transverse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. transverse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. transverse: Dictionary.com
  12. transverse (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Transverse (disambiguation), Transverse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Transverse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. transverse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. transverse: Rhymezone
  17. Transverse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. transverse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. transverse: Free Dictionary
  20. transverse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. transverse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TRANSVERSE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transverse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Transverse: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. transverse: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  6. transverse: Medical dictionary
  7. Transverse: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. transverse: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transverse: The Folk File

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. transverse: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Transverse: Latitude Mexico
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See transversely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
adjective:  (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics).)
adjective:  (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
noun:  Anything that is transverse or athwart.
noun:  (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
verb:  To lie or run across; to cross.
verb:  To traverse or thwart.
verb:  To overturn.
verb:  To alter or transform.
verb:  (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

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