traverse

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To travel or move across an area, especially a large or difficult one.

   The explorers had to traverse the frozen desert on foot.

2. 2
   verb

   To go through or visit every part of something.

   The program traverses all the nodes in the network.

From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).

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