noun A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
noun 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.
noun A screen or partition.
noun Something that thwarts or obstructs.
He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
noun A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
noun 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).
noun The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
noun A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.