Traversename

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  A surname from French.

traversenoun/tɹəˈvɝs/

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

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  geographynatural-sciencessurveyingA 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.

  • At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.
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  obsoleteA screen or partition.

  • Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]
  • At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
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  Something that thwarts or obstructs.

  • He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
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  architectureA gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

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  lawA 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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  nauticaltransportThe zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

  • Two years earlier another U.S. submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus, had made history by completing the first undersea traverse of the North Pole.
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  geometrymathematicssciencesA line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

traverseverb/tɹəˈvɝs/

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

  • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  • What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! / Your country's peace how oft, how dearly bought!
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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

  • to traverse all nodes in a network
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  To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

  • The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
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  engineeringgovernmentmilitaryTo rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

  • to traverse a cannon
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  climbinghobbieslifestyleTo climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

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

  • the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain
  • The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
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  To act against; to thwart or obstruct.

  • The well meaning Prieſt ſuffered him to deceive himſelf, fully determined to traverſe his views, inſtead of ſeconding them.
  • I cannot but […] admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.
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  To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

  • My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.

traverseadv/tɹəˈvɝs/

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  athwart; across; crosswise

traverseadj/tɹəˈvɝs/

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  Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

  • paths cut with traverse trenches
  • Oak […] being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.