What is the meaning of Traverse?

A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

A 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.

A screen or partition.

Something that thwarts or obstructs.

A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

A 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).

The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.

A traverse board.

1838, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture

To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

To act against; to thwart or obstruct.

To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

To deny formally.

To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

athwart; across; crosswise

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

crossing

obstacle, hurdle

sleeper (UK), tie (US)

crosspiece

byway, shortcut

inflection of traverser:

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
  2. second-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

second-person singular imperative

feminine plural of traverso

plural of traversa

Source: wiktionary.org