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Transpose vs Transverse - What's the difference?

transpose | transverse |

In transitive terms the difference between transpose and transverse

is that transpose is to reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange while transverse is to overturn; to change.

transpose

English

(wikipedia transpose)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) transposer, from (etyl) perfect passive participle transpositus'', from ''transponere'', to put across, from ''trans'', across, and ''ponere , to put

Verb

(transpos)
  • To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
  • (music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key
  • (algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (adjective, algebra) In matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix.

    • Noun

    (s)
  • (adjective, algebra) In matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
    • Synonyms
    * (''reverse or change the order of'): exchange, interchange, swap, swap over, swap round, switch
    Derived terms
    * transposable * transposal * transposase * transposer * transposing * transposition * transposon

    Etymology 2

    From the verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linear algebra) In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.

    • Anagrams

    * patroness English heteronyms ----

    transverse

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
  • (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

    • Antonyms

    * (lying across) longitudinal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

    • Verb

    (transvers)
  • To overturn; to change.
  • * Rev. Charles Leslie
    • And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  • (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
    • (Duke of Buckingham)
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