Transverse vs Transversality - What's the difference?
transverse | transversality | Related terms |
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.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
To overturn; to change.
* Rev. Charles Leslie
(obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
(mathematics) a property of two intersecting submanifolds, where at every intersection point, their separate tangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambient manifold at that point.
Transverse is a related term of transversality.
As nouns the difference between transverse and transversality
is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while transversality is (mathematics) a property of two intersecting submanifolds, where at every intersection point, their separate tangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambient manifold at that point.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
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* (lying across) longitudinalNoun
(en noun)Verb
(transvers)- 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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
- (Duke of Buckingham)