How to pronounce “transverse”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• 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.
• (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
• (geometry) (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 .)
• (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
• [Noun]
• Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
• (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
• [Verb]
• To lie or run across; to cross.
• To traverse or thwart.
• To overturn.
• To alter or transform.
• (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

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