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Definition of transversal in English: transversaladjective tranzˈvəːs(ə)ltransˈvəːs(ə)ltrɑːnzˈvəːs(ə)ltrɑːnsˈvəːs(ə)l Geometry (of a line) cutting a system of lines. Example sentencesExamples - After storage, thick transversal sections were made with a razor blade.
- A faint transversal line may indicate the posterior border of the seventh sternite.
- Arrowheads indicate the planes of the transversal cuts in panels (A) and (B).
- Radiating and transversal markings common on internal surface of valves or on steinkerns.
- Indeed, the electron microscopy pictures of the transversal cuts show this last organization and demonstrate the embodiment of the nanotubes.
Synonyms crosswise, crossways, cross, diagonal, horizontal, oblique, athwart
noun tranzˈvəːs(ə)ltransˈvəːs(ə)ltrɑːnzˈvəːs(ə)ltrɑːnsˈvəːs(ə)l Geometry A transversal line. Example sentencesExamples - From the vertices of ABC drop perpendiculars on the transversal.
- First, as stated above, local water wires formed transversal, rather than perpendicular, to the membrane.
- A partnership who manage to erase all three of their strokes before the other side have erased any get a monk's cross, which counts as two crosses and is chalked with two transversals.
- The construction consisted of orthogonals, transversals, horizon line and vanishing point.
Derivatives noun-ˈsalɪti Geometry Given a closed Riemannian manifold M, we construct a suitable class of perturbations to achieve Morse-Smale transversality for the heat equation. Example sentencesExamples - His work on topology, in particular on characteristic classes, cobordism theory and the Thom transversality theorem led to his being awarded a Fields medal in 1958.
- His essay, ‘The Three Ecologies,’ is only 42 pages long, but the translators' notes and introduction take up 57 pages, and the editor's essay on his ‘transversality’ another 54.
- In the idea of ‘dissensus’, the author acknowledges and advocates individual competence as a social force that can precipitate the kind of initiation essential to transversality.
- The method is an application of the weak transversality theorem used in catastrophe theory.
adverbtranzˈvəːsəli Geometry This latter character can be seen only in one of the vertebrae that is transversally broken. Example sentencesExamples - Cutting hurts but it works, remember to go up and along the veins of the arm as well as transversally.
- Moreover, the contingencies of historiography can provide scholars with the opportunity to transversally engage with their subject material.
- Lateral surfaces of the centrum longitudinally concave and transversally rounded, one foramen on each side.
- A wide range of bundle sizes was observed in leaves, with some of the smallest directed transversally rather than longitudinally.
Origin Late Middle English (as a synonym of transverse): from medieval Latin transversalis, from Latin transversus 'lying across'. Rhymes disbursal, dispersal, Purcell, rehearsal, reversal, succursal, tercel, traversal, universal Definition of transversal in US English: transversaladjective Geometry (of a line) intersecting a system of lines. Example sentencesExamples - After storage, thick transversal sections were made with a razor blade.
- A faint transversal line may indicate the posterior border of the seventh sternite.
- Arrowheads indicate the planes of the transversal cuts in panels (A) and (B).
- Radiating and transversal markings common on internal surface of valves or on steinkerns.
- Indeed, the electron microscopy pictures of the transversal cuts show this last organization and demonstrate the embodiment of the nanotubes.
Synonyms crosswise, crossways, cross, diagonal, horizontal, oblique, athwart
noun Geometry A transversal line. Example sentencesExamples - From the vertices of ABC drop perpendiculars on the transversal.
- A partnership who manage to erase all three of their strokes before the other side have erased any get a monk's cross, which counts as two crosses and is chalked with two transversals.
- First, as stated above, local water wires formed transversal, rather than perpendicular, to the membrane.
- The construction consisted of orthogonals, transversals, horizon line and vanishing point.
Origin Late Middle English (as a synonym of transverse): from medieval Latin transversalis, from Latin transversus ‘lying across’. |