traverse
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Definitions oftraverse
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- 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.
- A screen or partition.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
Example: "He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control."
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- 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).
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A traverse board.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
Example: "He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side."
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
Example: "to traverse all nodes in a network"
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
Example: "to traverse a cannon"
- , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
Example: "The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge."
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
Example: "to traverse a board"
- To deny formally.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
Example: "paths cut with traverse trenches"
- Athwart; across; crosswise
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