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• Photons at leading order are produced back-to-back with an associated parton with nearly identical transverse momenta.2015, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 392. From the entry back-to-back
• The transverse process protrudes between the cranial and caudal openings of the foramen transversarium.2015 August 25, “The Cervical Osteology of Okapia johnstoni and Giraffa camelopardalis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry transversarium
• The advantage of transverse magnetic polarization, however, is the possibility of exploiting surface plasmons for waveguiding.2009 January 8, Y. Chassagneux, R. Colombelli, W. Maineult, S. Barbieri, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, S. P. Khanna, E. H. Linfield, A. G.…. From the entry waveguide
• Weight distribution may be considered in any desired plane, usually in longitudinal and transverse senses.2008, Peter Bruce, Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 8. From the entry gyradius
• However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.2007, Aaron G. Filler, Axial Character Seriation in Mammals, page 120. From the entry hylobatid
• The doorways had a transverse mat well with a 1½in thick floor mat.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398. From the entry matting
• Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave.1979, E[uan] N[eilson] K[err] Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, London; Boston, Mass.; Sydney, N.S.W.: George Allen &…. From the entry tabularium
• At the midpelvis, transverse narrowing may result either from convergent sidewalls or prominent spines or both.1963 May 1, David N. Danforth, Averon H. Ellis, “Midforceps delivery—a vanishing art?”, in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology…. From the entry midpelvis
• Specimens minute, high-spired, loxonematoid shells with slightly sinuate transverse costae on ephebic whorls.1953, Journal of Paleontology, volume 27, page 698. From the entry loxonematoid
• In the transverse depression between the windows, the Silvretta Nappe disappears almost entirely underneath the Oetztal Nappe.1927, Léon William Collet, The Structure of the Alps, page 232. From the entry window
• The intersegments are homologous to the transverse conjunctivae of the preabdomen.1923, Memoir, numbers 68-77, page 59. From the entry intersegment
• The newborn examination confirms the diagnosis of amelia and distinguishes it from other limb deficiencies (e.g. terminal transverse defects) and sirenomelia.2020, Birth Defects Surveillance: A Manual for Programme Managers, 2nd edition, World Health Organization, page 119. From the entry amelia
• In sandwich shells, because of their initial curvature, bending moments (stress couples) give rise to transverse normal stresses in the core.2018, Jack R. Vinson, The Behavior of Sandwich Structures of Isotropic and Composite Materials, page 320. From the entry sandwich shell
• Division of splenocolic and gastrocolic ligaments from left to right completed splenic flexure mobilization releasing the distal third of transverse colon.2015 July 7, Andrea Pisani Ceretti et al., “Laparoscopic colonic resection for splenic flexure cancer: our experience”, in BMC…. From the entry splenocolic
• The crown is semiglobular and rounded, with a transverse crest and a long uvula that does not extend beyond the root.2015 October 22, “Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence…. From the entry semiglobular
• The true biforous spiracle has its opening completely divided by a transverse bar, leaving two usually rather slit-like openings.2013, R. A. Crowson, The Biology of the Coleoptera, page 234. From the entry biforous
• They are roomy and airy; the seats are transverse benches that you can stretch out and sleep on in the off-peak.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry off-peak
• Transverse incisions are used best for wedge tarsectomy.2012, Piet deBoer, Richard Buckley, Stanley Hoppenfeld, Surgical Exposures in Foot & Ankle Surgery: The Anatomic Approach, page 170. From the entry tarsectomy
• Packages are placed in transverse carriers attached to twin roller-chains, which move through the sections of the hydrostatic sterilizer.2010, Ryzhard Pohorecki, John Bridgwater, M. Molzahn, Rafiqul Gani, Crispulo Gallegos, Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process…. From the entry hydrostatic lock
• The androsporangia are formed in a series by the repeated transverse division of any vegetative cell of a large filament.2010, N K Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, volume 1, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry androsporangium
• Barchans and transverse dunes are essentially of the same type, forming and migrating under a unidirectional wind regime.2008, Julie Laity, “Aeolian Processes”, in Deserts and Desert Environments, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 205…. From the entry barchan
• Corrugations (washboardings) are fairly regular evenly spaced transverse ridges and caused by traffic actions in conjunction with loose aggregate.2005, T.F. Fwa, The Handbook of Highway Engineering, →ISBN, pages 16–17. From the entry washboarding
• Alternatively, it is often possible to perform an en-caul delivery through a transverse incision if the membranes are left intact.2004, Griff Jones, “Preterm labour”, in David M. Luesley, Philip N. Baker, editors, Obstetrics and Gynaecology: An Evidence-Based Text for…. From the entry en-caul
• Swivelling of these semi-trailing arms is therefore neither true transverse or true trailing but is a combination of both.2002, Heinz Heisler, Advanced Vehicle Technology, page 397. From the entry semi-trailing
• There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.1995, Nancy Berliner, Sarah Handler, Friends of the House, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry three
• The separation of the genito-aggential region from the ano-adanal region by a transverse scissure in the Epilohmanniidae is termed schizogastry.1992, Principles of acarology, page 461. From the entry schizogastry
• When ridges occur along both longitudinal and transverse joints, outlining the insulation boards, the pattern formed is known as "picture framing"1989, H.L. Simmons, Repairing And Extending Weather Barriers, page 97. From the entry picture framing
• In addition to the more highly developed siphon, stenoglossans usually have only three radular teeth in each transverse row.1974, Alan Solem, The Shell Makers: Introducing Mollusks, page 107. From the entry stenoglossan
• The individual plies are then unrolled and each separated at the transverse perforations to provide separate stationery forms.1973, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 583. From the entry deleave
• After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition. From the entry caecum
• The inner bottom of the ship is "egg-crated" with transverse floors at every frame, and is enormously strong.1959, Discovery: A Magazine of Scientific Progress - Volume 20, page 467. From the entry egg-crate
• A wide transverse lower abdominal incision is used.1954 February 15, Oswald S. Lowsley, Thomas H. Johnson, Antonio E. Rueda, “Operation for Urinary Diversion”, in Modern Medicine, volume…. From the entry neomycin
• The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.1950, Pacific Fisherman - Volume 48, page 49. From the entry egg-crate
• In the initial inflammatory stage the iris appears redder than the normal due to a distension of the transverse vessels.1940, M.S.U. Veterinarian, volumes 1-2. From the entry coroscopy
• In Asplanchnaceae, the germary is median, continuous at the distal end with the middle of the transverse horseshoe-shaped vitellary.1911, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 762. From the entry vitellary
• In Asplanchnaceae, the germary is median, continuous at the distal end with the middle of the transverse horesshoe-shaped vitellary.1911, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 762. From the entry germary
• Old montiferous form, transverse section, outlined natural size. 7.1903, The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology, page 24 (captions for images, showing the non-montiferous thing as having a…. From the entry montiferous
• Transverse posterior line reduced to two dotlets or altogether wanting.1902, Proceedings: Entomological papers, volumes 25-26, United States National Museum, page 201. From the entry wanting

Meaning of transverse

1. adjective Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
2. adjective Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. adjective (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ).

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How do you use transverse in a sentence?

Transverse is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.”

What is a short sentence with transverse?

“A wide transverse lower abdominal incision is used.”

What does transverse mean?

Transverse means situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.