คำว่า ' transverse ' ( ADJ )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[a.] Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
[n.] Anything that is transverse or athwart.
[n.] The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
[v. t.] To overturn; to change.
[v. t.] To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.