<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or process of passing across, over, or through: A problem with the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it began its traversal of the rings of Saturn was eventually linked to high-speed collisions with micrometeoroids.</li><li>in Computers: the act or process of systematically visiting all nodes of a tree or other linked data structure, usually for the purposes of collecting or transforming data at the nodes: Issues fixed in this release include a vulnerability in directory traversal that could give an attacker the ability to access files that should be restricted.</li></ul>