transverse

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An international team of researchers has now achieved that goal by demonstrating a quantized transverse drift of light.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

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

Cashore spelled it correctly, then clinched the title with the word “transept,” an architectural term for the transverse part of a cross-shaped church.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

This device was able to exhibit a transverse thermoelectric effect significantly larger than that produced solely by existing magnetic materials capable of exhibiting the anomalous Nernst effect in the first-ever experimental demonstration of its kind.

From Science Daily • May 13, 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