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A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
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A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
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A screen or partition.
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Something that thwarts or obstructs.
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He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
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A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
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A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
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The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
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A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
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A traverse board.