Transverse may refer to:
- Transverse City, a 1989 album by Warren Zevon
- Transverse engine, an engine in which the crankshaft is oriented side-to-side relative to the wheels of the vehicle
- Transverse flute, a flute that is held horizontally
- Transverse mass, a particle physics quantity
- Transverse plane, the plane orthogonal to the anteroposterior or oral-aboral axis
- Transverse rotors, a type of rotorcraft in which there are two rotors mounted side by side
- Transverse wave, a wave that causes a disturbance in the medium perpendicular to the direction it advances
- Transversality theorem, a concept related to the intersection of manifolds in topology
- Transversality (mathematics), a notion in mathematics
- Transverse Island, an island on the east side of Stefansson Bay, off the coast of Enderby Land