traverses

Verb

traverse (third-person singular simple present traverses, present participle traversing, simple past and past participle traversed)

1. (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
   • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
2. (transitive) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
   • to traverse all nodes in a network
3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
   • The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC
4. To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
   • to traverse a cannon
5. To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
6. To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
   • the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain

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