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Meaning of transverse

- Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
- Anything that is transverse or athwart.
- The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
- To overturn; to change.
- To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.