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Uncommontransverse
The correct spelling is transverse.
How to pronounce transverse
noun
IPA: /tɹænzˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Say it like: Tra-nsv-ers-e
The correct spelling is transverse. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Anything that is transverse or athwart.
- 2.The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
verb
- 1.To overturn; to change.
- 2.To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
adjective
- 1.Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
- 2.(of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
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