Dictionary Entry
transverse
transverse is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
- 2noun
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
- 3noun
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
- 4transitive verb
To overturn; to change.
- 5transitive verb
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
- 6adjective
extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
"cross members should be all steel"
"from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"
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