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Transverse vs Homonomy - What's the difference?

transverse | homonomy |

As nouns the difference between transverse and homonomy

is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while homonomy is the homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.

As an adjective transverse

is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.

As a verb transverse

is to overturn; to change.

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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?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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    homonomy

    English

    Noun

  • (biology) The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.
  • (Webster 1913)