different between axial vs transverse

English

Alternative forms

• axical

Etymology

axis +? -al

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æksi.?l/

Adjective

axial (comparative more axial, superlative most axial)

1. Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
2. (anatomy) Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ

3. (botany) In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.

4. (chemistry) oriented close to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See w:Axial bond.

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Related terms

• axiality
• axially

Translations

See also

• abaxial
• adaxial
• biaxial
• coaxial
• multiaxial
• triaxial
• uniaxial

Noun

axial (plural axials)

1. (ornithology) A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds.
2. (dentistry) A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.

French

Etymology

From axe +? -ial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.sjal/

Adjective

axial (feminine singular axiale, masculine plural axiaux, feminine plural axiales)

1. axial

Related terms

• axe
• axer

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ksi?a?l/

Adjective

axial (not comparable)

1. axial

Declension

Derived terms

• koaxial

Romanian

Etymology

From French axial

Adjective

axial m or n (feminine singular axial?, masculine plural axiali, feminine and neuter plural axiale)

1. axial

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

axial (plural axiales)

1. axial

   Synonym: axil

Derived terms

• axialmente

Related terms

• eje

Further reading

• “axial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (noun):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

transverse (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

   Antonym: longitudinal

2. (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4. (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Derived terms

Related terms

• transversal
• transversion

Translations

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Translations

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)

1. To lie or run across; to cross.
2. To traverse or thwart.
3. To overturn.
4. To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

References

• “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
• tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
• tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
• tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]

Etymology 1

From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Alternative forms

• tr?nsvors?

Adverb

tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)

1. Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.

   Synonym: tr?nsversim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tr?nsverse

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus

References

• transverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • transverto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette