Definition of Transverses

1. transverse [n] - See also: transverse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transverses

transverse tarsal articulation
transverse tarsal joint
transverse temporal convolutions
transverse temporal gyri
transverse temporal sulci
transverse tibiofibular ligament
transverse vein of face
transverse vein of scapula
transverse veins of neck
transverse velum
transverse vesical fold
transverse wave
transversectomy
transversely
transverses (current term)
transversion
transversion mutation
transversions
transversity
transversocostal
transversospinal muscle
transversospinalis muscle
transversourethralis
transversovertical index
transversus
transversus abdominis muscle
transversus menti muscle
transversus nuchae muscle

Literary usage of Transverses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"transverses and Longitudinals.—As already stated, the transverses are usually ... A single-deck ship would require comparatively deeper transverses than a ..."

2. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"The various transverse bulkheads and transverses, are, of course, first erected and held in position by shores and perhaps a couple of ribbands. ..."

3. A Treatise on Statics with Applications to Physics by George Minchin Minchin (1889)
"But when the axes of these rotations are two transverses and a tangent line to the wire (or rather to its elastic central line), it is usual to distinguish ..."

4. Transactions (1908)
"The transverses, however, I consider are not properly constructed, because at least one flange of the girder is entirly cut away •* every longitudinal, ..."

5. Modern Shipbuilding Terms by Fred Forrest Pease (1918)
"is made good by strong tie bars extending from the face angle on the transverses to the tank-top plating (note this on Plate LXV). ..."

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