(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.
(architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(law) A formaldenial 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).
(nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
“Duarte Pacheco Pereira, a member of the crew of Alvise Cabral, was convinced that a westward traversal of the ocean towards Asia was possible and feasible.”
“Also, notice that the metaphoric language Benjamin employs in this passage invokes travel and, indeed, traversal.”
“His account of the traversal of the wilderness and the creation of a politics of the frontier surrounding Bingham's practice is rich and varied.”
