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Transverse vs Medial - What's the difference?

transverse | medial |

As adjectives the difference between transverse and medial

is that transverse is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction while medial is of or pertaining to a mean or average.

As nouns the difference between transverse and medial

is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while medial is one or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

As a verb transverse

is to overturn; to change.

transverse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.
  • Antonyms

    * (lying across) longitudinal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
  • Verb

    (transvers)
  • To overturn; to change.
  • * Rev. Charles Leslie
  • 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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  • (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
  • (Duke of Buckingham)
    ----

    medial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
  • :
  • In or near the middle; not at either end.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial , or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
  • :
  • # (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
  • (lb) Closer to the addressee.
  • Antonyms

    * (anatomy) lateral

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    * medial capital * medially

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
  • Any of various things that occur in the middle.
  • Anagrams

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