Traverse
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To travel across, often under difficult conditions. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network. 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.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent. In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet. 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.
Example sentence: When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
Traversal
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of traversing; a crossingThe product or result of traversing