What is the meaning of Transverse?

Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.

Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.

The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

To lie or run across; to cross.

To traverse or thwart.

To overturn.

To alter or transform.

To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

transverse

crosswise, transversely, obliquely

vocative masculine singular of trānsversus

Source: wiktionary.org