Word Finder - traverse

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(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

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(surveying) 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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(obsolete) A screen or partition.

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Something that thwarts or obstructs.

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(architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

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(law) 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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(nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

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(geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

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(military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.

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(nautical) A traverse board.

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(transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

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(transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

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To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

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(weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

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(climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

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(engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

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To act against; to thwart or obstruct.

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To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

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(carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

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(law) To deny formally.

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(intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

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athwart; across; crosswise

adjective

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Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

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