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# transversely

«transversely» in Mova's school dictionary: **across, lying or moving from side to side, at a right…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (transversely)

### meaning for a pupil

Transversely means across, lying or moving from side to side, at a right angle to the length of something: "Cut the carrot transversely into rounds." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and maths it describes cutting or placing something crosswise, for example a transverse section (cross-section) of a stem in biology, or transverse waves in physics (light and water waves, which wiggle up and down at right angles to the direction they travel). In cooking, slicing across. Phrases: "cut transversely", "placed transversely", "transverse wave".

### examples

- Cut the stem transversely to see the tubes inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x1)
- The beams were laid transversely across the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x2)
- In a transverse wave, the particles move transversely to the wave's direction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x3)
- Slice the cucumber transversely into circles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x4)
- The engine is mounted transversely in many small cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x5)
- The scientist cut the bone transversely and looked at it under the microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x6)
- The stripes run transversely across the flag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/#x7)

### note

Formal or technical; simpler: across, crosswise. Opposite: longitudinally (along the length). Adjective: transverse. In maths, "at right angles" means 90 degrees.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transversely» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transversely/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.