transvectionn.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 325 The transvection or transportation of aer..to the same Lungs of the infant.
1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 330 The consummate salvation of the Saints, or their transvection into those eternal Mansions of glory.
1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis xiii. 105 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. That transposition..is..a transvection of them, rather than pulsion or traction.
2. Mathematics. A method used by Clebsch and Gordan for deriving invariants and covariants from a product of two binary forms.
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transvection1876
1876 G. Salmon Lessons Mod. Higher Algebra (ed. 3) xix. 272 If ϕ, ψ be covariants..we can obtain from them the series of covariants ϕxp−k ψxq−k(ϕψ)k... This operation, in German called Ueberschiebung, we shall call transvection, and the covariants generated we shall call transvectants of the two given covariants.
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