traverse

/tɹəˈvɜːs/

noun

Meaning

A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
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.
A screen or partition.
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
"He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control."
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
A formal denial 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).
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
A traverse board.

verb

Meaning

To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
"He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side."
To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
"to traverse all nodes in a network"
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
"to traverse a cannon"
, To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
"The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge."
To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
"to traverse a board"
To deny formally.
To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

adjective

Meaning

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
"paths cut with traverse trenches"

adverb

Meaning