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单词 transversal
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Definition of transversal in English:

transversal

adjective 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

  • transversality

  • 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.
  • transversally

  • 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:

transversal

adjective
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’.

 
 
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