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.

Anything that is transverse or athwart. / (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

To lie or run across; to cross. / To traverse or thwart. / To overturn. / To alter or transform. / (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

In a transverse manner.

simple past tense and past participle of transverse

plural of transverse

The quality of being transverse.

(railroad) A traverse table.

plural of transverser

Running or lying across; transverse. / Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting hetergeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).