Transverse vs Longissimus - What's the difference?
transverse | longissimus |
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.
(anatomy) The muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.
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As nouns the difference between transverse and longissimus
is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while longissimus is (anatomy) the muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.As an adjective transverse
is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.As a verb transverse
is to overturn; to change.transverse
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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?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)
