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traverse /ˈtravəs, trəˈvəːs/

▶verb

1 travel or extend across or through.
■ cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another.

■ ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height.

2 move back and forth or sideways.
■ turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.

3 Law deny (an allegation) in pleading.
■ archaic thwart (a plan).

▶noun

1 an act of traversing.
■ a zigzag course taken by a ship.

2 a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something.
■ a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building.

3 a mechanism enabling a large gun to be traversed.
■ the sideways movement of a part in a machine.

4 a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points.

5 Military a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire.

– derivatives
traversable adjective,
traversal noun,
traverser noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. traverser, from late L. traversare; the noun is from OFr. travers (masc.), traverse (fem.), partly based on traverser.

'traversing' also found in these Oxford entries:

racer - traverse

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