a. [f. TRANS- 3 + MERIDIONAL a. 4.] Crossing or traversing the meridian lines; running east and west.
1863. Adm. Fitzroy, in Liverpool Mercury, 8 Dec., 7/7. Without a general, lateral, or transmeridional movement, or translation of atmosphere toward the east in the temperate zones … it would not be possible to forecast the character of wind and weather beyond one day’s interval.
1883. A. Winchell, World-Life, II. iii. (1889), 355. How the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean shores came to have general transmeridional trends is a question which must find its solution in the events of Mesozoic and Cænozoic geological history.
1892. Chambers’ Encycl., X. 505/2. The Caribbean Sea and the Mediterranean—those great transmeridional depressions.
