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transverse
noun
verb
adjective
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 10
- Starts with
- T
- Ends with
- E
- Contains
- RANSVERS
- Scrabble score
- 13
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
/tɹænzˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Meaning
Definitions
noun
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
verb
To overturn; to change.
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
adjective
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
(of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
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