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transversal

American  
[trans-vur-suhl, tranz-] / trænsˈvɜr səl, trænz- /

adjective

  1. transverse.


noun

  1. Geometry. a line intersecting two or more lines.

transversal British  
/ trænzˈvɜːsəl /

noun

  1. geometry a line intersecting two or more other lines

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adjective

  1. a less common word for transverse

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Other Word Forms

  • intertransversal adjective
  • subtransversal adjective
  • subtransversally adverb
  • transversally adverb

Etymology

Origin of transversal

1400–50; late Middle English (adj.) < Medieval Latin trānsversālis. See transverse, -al 1

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Example Sentences

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"It's undeniable that we need new transversal responses against organized crime," he said.

From Reuters • Feb. 27, 2023

To perform an error-protected one-qubit transversal gate, you perform the gate on all the physical qubits encoding the logical qubit.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2022

But a fundamental theorem states that no quantum error correction code can perform universal computation using only transversal gates.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2022

Earlier this month, the EU's research commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, seemed to confirm these suspicions when she said "transversal issues need to be tackled first".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2021

The existence of transversal vibration in those materials has not been yet proved experimentally, though there is sufficient ground to preclude our denying their probable existence.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi