Axial vs Transverse - What's the difference?
axial | transverse |
Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
(botany) in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
(geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
To overturn; to change.
* Rev. Charles Leslie
(obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
As adjectives the difference between axial and transverse
is that axial is of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis while transverse is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.As a noun transverse is
anything that is transverse or athwart.As a verb transverse is
to overturn; to change.axial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the secondary xylem usually consists of axial and radial elements
Coordinate terms
*See also
* abaxial * adaxialtransverse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* (lying across) longitudinalNoun
(en noun)Verb
(transvers)- And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
- (Duke of Buckingham)