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 screen or partition.

To travel across, often under difficult conditions.

“He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.”

To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

“to traverse all nodes in a network”

To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

“paths cut with traverse trenches”

Athwart; across; crosswise