The directions in wood at right angles to the wood fibers or across the grain A transverse section is a section through a tree or timber at right angles to the pith
Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; often opposed to longitudinal
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"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon"
A kind of wave where the medium is disturbed in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving (propagating) Click for a movie showing a transverse wave Back to Top Back to Wave Index
situated or lying across; [crosswide side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction"
1) Referring to an anatomical plane that divides the body crosswise, or 2) a characterization of direction, indicating "perpendicular to the fibers or flow"
Transverse is used to describe something that is at right angles to something else. lying or placed across something (past participle of transvertere, from vertere )
Crosswise; term used to identical an engine rotated 90 degrees from the traditional longitudinal mounting, typically found in front wheel drive cars
{i} something that is transverse, something which lies in an opposite direction, something which lies in a cross direction