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Trans vs Transhistorical - What's the difference?

trans | transhistorical |

As nouns the difference between trans and transhistorical

is that trans is abbreviation of lang=en while transhistorical is outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.

As an adjective trans

is in (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.

trans

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Adjective

(-)
  • (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
  • the trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands
  • (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (colloquial) Transgender, transsexual.
  • An umbrella term that refers to all the identities, other then cisgender, that are within the gender identity spectrum.
  • Usage notes
    Compare (m) and its usage notes, particularly with regard to the gender-related sense. Compare and and its usage notes with regards to the umbrella sense.
    Derived terms
    * trans fat * transman / trans man; transwoman / trans woman

    Coordinate terms

    * cis

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation.

    Noun

  • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    transhistorical

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
  • * 2005 , Michael Cronin, Training For The New Millennium , edited by Martha Tennent, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 259:
  • An assumption made in much translation pedagogy is that... students are always and everywhere the same. In other words, the student is an invariant, transhistorical subject who is, to all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from his or her counterpart in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century.

    See also

    * transhistoricity