How to pronounce “traverse”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
• (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
• (obsolete) A screen or partition.
• Something that thwarts or obstructs.
• (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.[1]
• (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
• (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
• (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
• (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
• (nautical) A traverse board.

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