traversing
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Definitions oftraversing
- 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.
- A traversal.
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