Transverse vs Scutellum - What's the difference?
transverse | scutellum |
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.
Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
# (lichenology) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
# (zoology) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum.
# (zoology) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds.
As nouns the difference between transverse and scutellum
is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while scutellum is any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc.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
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* (lying across) longitudinalNoun
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(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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?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)
