traversing

1. To travel across, often under difficult conditions.

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

2. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

   to traverse all nodes in a network

3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

   to traverse a cannon

5. , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
6. To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

   The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.

7. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
9. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

   to traverse a board

10. To deny formally.
11. To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

noun

A traversal.