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
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
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 )
Component of magnetic field vector perpendicular to direction of view, e g , of the solar magnetic field and parallel to the solar surface at disk center
The plane of section that runs from the front to the back of the body, dividing it into top and bottom parts Also known as axial, transaxial, or cross section