Transverse definition

Transverse

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WordNet

(1) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

"Cross members should be all steel"

"From the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"

"Transversal vibrations"

"Transverse colon"

WiktionaryText

Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.