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Transverse \Trans"verse\, n.
1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
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2. (Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
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Transverse \Trans*verse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transversed}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transversing}.]
To overturn; to change. [R.] --C. Leslie.
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Transverse \Trans*verse"\, v. t. [Pref. trans- verse, n.
Cf.{Transpose}.]
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
[Obs.] --Duke of Buckingham.
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Transverse \Trans*verse"\, a. [L. transversus, p. p. of
transvertere to turn on direct across; trans across vertere
to turn: cf. F. transverse. See {Verse}, and cf. {Traverse}.]
Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart;
-- often opposed to {longitudinal}.
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{Transverse axis} (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that
axis which passes through the foci.

{Transverse partition} (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp,
at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of
mustard.
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