transverse

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) 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.
2. (not-comparable) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (not-comparable) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
4. (not-comparable, obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Noun

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
2. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Verb

1. (transitive) To lie or run across; to cross.
2. (transitive) To traverse or thwart.
3. (transitive) To overturn.
4. (transitive) To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Oposto a

longitudinal

Sinónimos

transversal

cross

oblique

horizontal

normal mode

differential

metallic mode

odd mode

diagonal

thwartwise

crosswise

differential-mode

awry

thwart

athwart

crossing

symmetrical

slanting

cross-cut

not smooth

cross fold

superimposed fold

sidelong

aslant

cockeyed

crackpot

cross-town

devious

diametral

kinky

lateral

rakish

askew

skew

slant

sloping

traverse

traversing

wry

catty-corner

Traducións

quer

transversal

trasversale

transverso

transversal

dwars

transversal

transverso

transversal

diagonal

εγκάρσιος

schräg

traverso

transversus

tranversal

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/tɹanzˈvɜːs/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: -

In summary

Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.

Frases

Elongation in hydrostats is caused by the contraction of transverse or helical musculature arrangements .