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 Trans·verse a.  Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
 Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) Geom., that axis which passes through the foci.
 Transverse partition Bot., a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.