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Transverse vs Vertical - What's the difference?

transverse | vertical |

As adjectives the difference between transverse and vertical

is that transverse is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction while vertical is along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth.

As nouns the difference between transverse and vertical

is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while vertical is a vertex or zenith.

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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?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

    vertical

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vertex or zenith.
  • A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
  • An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
  • A vertical component of a structure.
  • (marketing) A vertical market.
  • We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth.
  • In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis.
  • (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
  • Antonyms

    * horizontal

    Derived terms

    * vertical lips * vertically * vertical smile