Definition of transversing:
(adj) :
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.
(v) :
To lie or run across; to cross.
(adj) :
(anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
(n) :
(geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
(n) :
Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
(adj) :
(geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)