transverse

To lie or run across; to cross.

To alter or transform.

To traverse or thwart.

To overturn.

(no longer used) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.

(of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

(no longer used) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.

The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.