Definitionen
1.NounA route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
2.NounA series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
3.NounA screen or partition.
4.NounSomething that thwarts or obstructs."He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control."
5.NounA gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
6.NounA formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
7.NounThe zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
8.NounA line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
9.NounIn trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
10.NounA traverse board.
11.Noun↑ 1838, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture
12.VerbTo travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions."He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side."
13.VerbTo visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly."to traverse all nodes in a network"
14.VerbTo lay in a cross direction; to cross.
15.VerbTo rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target."to traverse a cannon"
16.VerbTo climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
17.VerbTo (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate."the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain; The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge."
18.VerbTo act against; to thwart or obstruct.
19.VerbTo pass over and view; to survey carefully.
20.VerbTo plane in a direction across the grain of the wood."to traverse a board"
21.VerbTo deny formally.
22.VerbTo use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
23.Adverbathwart; across; crosswise
24.AdjectiveLying across; being in a direction across something else."paths cut with traverse trenches"