Definitions of transverse

1. To overturn; to change.

2. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

3. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

4. Anything that lies crosswise.

5. That which is transverse.

6. The longer axis of an ellipse.

7. That which crosses or lies in a cross direction.

8. Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; - often opposed to longitudinal.

9. Lying or being crosswise.

10. Turned or lying across.

11. Lying across; in a cross direction.

12. Lying or being across; athwart.

13. Lying or being across or in a cross direction; in a pericarp, at right angles with the valves.

14. Lying or being across; running in a cross direction; in bot., being at right angles with the valves.

15. Lying across or between, as artery, colon, ligament, process.