Definition of traverse Traverse

/tɹæˈvɚs/ - [tratvers] - trav•erse

We found 40 definitions of traverse from 9 different sources.

What does traverse mean?

WordNet

Verb traverses, traversing, traversed
traverse - deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
		deny
		practice of law, law the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale"
traverse - to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
		cross, span, sweep
		continue, extend, cover exist over a prolonged period of time; "The bad weather continued for two more weeks"

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Wiktionary

traverse (Noun)
A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing , in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
traverse (Noun)
In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.
traverse (Noun)
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.
traverse (Noun)
A screen or partition.
traverse (Verb)
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
traverse (Verb)
To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.
traverse (Verb)
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
traverse (Verb)
To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
traverse (Adverb)
athwart; across; crosswise.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

traverse (a.)
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
traverse (adv.)
Athwart; across; crosswise.
traverse (a.)
Anything that traverses, or crosses.
traverse (a.)
Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
traverse (a.)
A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
traverse (a.)
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
traverse (a.)
A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
traverse (a.)
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; that is, without this which follows.
traverse (a.)
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
traverse (a.)
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
traverse (a.)
A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
traverse (a.)
The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
traverse (a.)
A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
traverse (a.)
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
traverse (a.)
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
traverse (a.)
To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
traverse (a.)
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
traverse (a.)
To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
traverse (a.)
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
traverse (a.)
To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
traverse (v. i.)
To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
traverse (v. i.)
To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
traverse (v. i.)
To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

traverse
To go beyond, to pass here.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

traverse
trav′ėrs, adj. turned or lying across: denoting a method of cross-sailing.—n. anything laid or built across: something that crosses or obstructs: a turn: (law) a plea containing a denial of some fact alleged by an opponent: a work for protection from the fire of an enemy: a gallery from one side of a large building to another.—v.t. to cross: to pass over: to survey: to plane across the grain of the wood: (law) to deny an opponent's allegation.—v.i. (fencing) to use the motions of opposition or counteraction: to direct a gun to the right or left of its position.—adv. athwart, crosswise—(obs.) Trav′ers.—adj. Trav′ersable, that may be traversed or denied.—ns. Trav′erser; Trav′erse-tā′ble, a table or platform for shifting carriages to other rails; Trav′ersing-plat′form, a platform to support a gun and carriage which can easily be turned round. [L. trans, across, vertĕre, versum, to turn.]

Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️

traverse
in navigation, implies a compound course, or an assemblage of various courses, lying at different angles with the meridian. Thus fig. 2. plate XI. exhibits the traverses formed by a ship, when making an oblique progression against the direction of the wind, as explained in the article TACKING.
The true course and distance resulting from this diversity of courses is discovered by collecting the difference of latitude and departure of each course, and reducing the whole into one departure and one difference of latitude, according to the known rules of trigonometry. This reduction will immediately ascertain the base and perpendicular; or, in other words, will give the difference of latitude and departure to discover the course and distance. See NAVIGATION.

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

traverse
Denotes the several courses a ship makes under the changes of wind or manœuvres. It is self-evident that if she steered a course there would be no traverse. But her course being north, and the wind from the north, it is evident she could have but two courses open to her, E.N.E., or W.N.W. The reduction of the distances run on each course, corrected for variation and lee-way, constitutes the traverse table, from which the reckoning is deduced each day up to noon. From this zig-zag set of lines we have the term Tom Cox's traverse (which see). Also, in fortification, a mound, often of parapet form, raised to cover from enfilade or reverse fire. Also, to traverse a gun or mortar. To alter its direction from right to left, or vice versâ, with handspikes, tackles, &c.