A surname from French.

(transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions. / (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly. / To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

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

athwart; across; crosswise

simple past tense and past participle of traverse

One who, or that which, traverses or moves, such as an index on a scale. / (law) One who traverses, or denies. / (rail transport) A traverse table.

plural of traverse

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of traverse

plural of traverser