Anything that is transverse or athwart.
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
To overturn; to change.
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
(of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.