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Transverse vs Traversing - What's the difference?

transverse | traversing |

As nouns the difference between transverse and traversing

is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while traversing is a traversal.

As verbs the difference between transverse and traversing

is that transverse is to overturn; to change while traversing is .

As an adjective transverse

is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.

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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?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)
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    traversing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A traversal.
  • * 2013 , John Likides, Foundations of Meaning (page 300)
    • Some traversings last a few seconds or minutes, for instance, when the imagination passes swiftly across familiar eras and realms in its effort to generate the momentum necessary to perceive timeless realities.