Used in a Sentence

traverse

How to use traverse in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for traverse.

Editorial note

That's because the very first time, you actually traverse the list.

Examples13
Definitions7
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a horizontal beam that extends across something

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of traverse gathered in one view.

noun

a horizontal beam that extends across something

noun

a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it

noun

taking a zigzag path on skis

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for traverse.

noun

a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it

noun

taking a zigzag path on skis

verb

travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

verb

to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"

verb

deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit

Example sentences

1

That's because the very first time, you actually traverse the list.

2

Bits are used to decide how to traverse the token tree, weighted by frequency.

3

It takes longer and longer for the students to reach the surface of the sphere, as there is more and more volume to traverse.

4

Some, hopefully, constructive criticism:The rain drops are too spherical as they traverse the screen.

5

All traversed shady objects will stay in the new generation and also be added to the shady-set.

6

Here is one amazin micromouse that can traverse a maze and remember the solution very, very quickly.

7

Would that have been a long enough time scale for an intelligent species to emerge, civilize, and develop a way to traverse the 500 light years between us and them?

8

If you look at the code vs Sinatra every time you want to figure out which route to edit, you have to traverse the tree as opposed to just scanning for the route you want.

9

It was decided that "time" would be treated as a valuable player resource: for that reason, raw materials were spread all over the galaxy map, which takes hours to traverse.

10

For instance Redis implements all the sorted sets operations using doubly-linked skiplists, so once you identify a node you can traverse other nodes in both directions.

11

The friction plus surface tension of a water on glass pulls the tail out significantly farther then represented and also varies on whether the drop is following a path that's already been traversed and therefore has less friction.

12

This could potentially increase the number of mine-related injuries because far more people will attempt to live in or traverse known minefields which they wrongly believe to have been cleared yet which still contain roughly half of the original mines.

13

Then, it's very simple to create an iterator that can traverse every entity in existence: Call find-first-set to find allocated entities, call their update function, then clear the associated bit in the inverted binary set.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use traverse in a sentence?

That's because the very first time, you actually traverse the list.

What does traverse mean?

a horizontal beam that extends across something

What part of speech is traverse?

traverse is commonly used as noun, verb.