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adj. Situated or lying across; crosswise.

n. Something, such as a part or beam, that is transverse.

adj. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.

adj. Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

v. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

adj. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.

n. Anything that is transverse or athwart.

n. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

v. To overturn; to change.

v. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

n. In mathematics, a transverse axis.

Lying or being across or in a cross direction; cross; thwart.

Collateral.

In anatomy and zoology, broader or wider than long; having its major diameter crosswise: noting various parts or organs which lie or are taken to run across other parts, or especially across the long axis of the whole body. See transversalis and transversus.

In botany:

Right and left or collateral with reference to the median plane.

Being at right angles to the axial direction: for example, see transverse partition, below.

In herpetology, specifically noting a bone of the skull which usually unites the palatine and the pterygoid bones with the maxilla.

In heraldry, crossing the escutcheon from one side to the opposite one.

Of the brain, a fissure beneath the fornix and the hemispheres, above the optic thalami, through which membranes and vessels are continued from the pia mater into the ventricles of the brain.

n. In anatomy, a transversalis or transversus: as, the transverse of the abdomen, perineum, or sole of the foot.

Crosswise; across; transversely.

To overturn; turn topsyturvy.

To change; transpose. Compare transprose.

To transgress; run counter.

adj. extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

"The term transverse is equivalent to lateral, in flying machine parlance, but there is this distinction: Transverse has reference to a machine or object which, like the main planes of an aeroplane, are broader, (that is, -- from end to end) than their length, (from front to rear)."

crosswise   

longitudinal   

transverse rib    transverse fiute    transverse section    transverse ligament of the toes    hallucal transverse muscle   

transversed    transversing   

athwart    overturn    change    cross   

Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse   

longitudinal    perpendicular    diagonal    radial    oblique