1. transverse [Dictionnaire médical de l'Académie de Médecine]
2. (Anatomie) (Par ellipse) Muscle transverse de l'abdomen.
3. (Anatomie) Qui est situé en travers.
L'artère transverse de la face.
Les apophyses transverses des vertèbres.
Des plis transverses en rident l'extrémité antérieure. (Jean Rostand, La vie des crapauds, 1933)
4. [adjective] Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined 'forward' direction.
5. [adjective] (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
6. [noun] Anything that is transverse or athwart.
7. [noun] (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
8. [verb] (transitive) To overturn; to change.
9. [verb] (transitive) (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
10. [adjective] 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'.
