traverse
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
2. (surveying) 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.Examples: "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."
3. (obsolete) A screen or partition.Examples: "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."obsolete
4. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
5. (law) 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).
6. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.Examples: "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!"; "Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard."transitive
2. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.Examples: "to traverse all nodes in a network"transitive
3. (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.Examples: "to traverse a cannon"
4. (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
5. (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.Examples: "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."
6. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.Examples: "to traverse a board"
Definition source: Wiktionary