A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
A brief interval.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
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).
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
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 traverse board.
To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
To deny formally.
To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
athwart; across; crosswise