transverse
Example Sentences
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Never exactly its strong suit, the exterior gets a makeover with the revised front end, incorporating a transverse lightbar between the sidemarker/turn signal assemblies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The 45-year-old Memphis resident was diagnosed in 2005 with transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that left her nearly immobile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
By contrast, transverse interactions are a recently discovered class of forces that act perpendicular to that central axis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
One tabulation of the cost to double the number of buses so fans can better transverse the city on public transit is estimated at upward of $1 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
The wave on a string is a transverse wave, moving the string back and forth, rather than moving up and down along the string.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing transverse
Waves and Wave Properties - Introductory
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Waves and Wave Properties - Middle School
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Physics - Introductory
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