Definition of traverse

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Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches..

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Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..
Radiograph :: Radiograph (n.) A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses..
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast..
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like..
Transversal :: Transversal (n.) A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced..
Round :: Round (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman..
Traverse :: 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 :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Barruly :: Barruly (a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.
Solenoid :: Solenoid (n.) An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet..
Electrotonic :: Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.
Rheophore :: Rheophore (n.) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current..
Traverse :: 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..
Traversable :: Traversable (a.) Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
Hunt :: Hunt (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country..
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