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What does transverse mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word transverse? Here's what it means.

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