traverse (English, noun)
expansion: traverse (plural traverses)
Senses:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: 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.
glosses: A screen or partition.
tags: obsolete
glosses: Something that thwarts or obstructs.
topics: architecture
glosses: A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
topics: law
glosses: 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).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A traverse board.
Forms:
form: traverses
tags: plural