Transverse

Full definition of transverse

Adjective

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
2. (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

Antonyms

• (lying across) longitudinal

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To overturn; to change.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.----