transversal
Americanadjective
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transversals
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Origin of transversal
1400–50; late Middle English (adj.) < Medieval Latin trānsversālis. See transverse, -al 1
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Geometry - Middle School
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"It's undeniable that we need new transversal responses against organized crime," he said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2023
What you need are non-Clifford gates, which tend to not be transversal and are difficult to simulate classically.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 19, 2022
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
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 Luigi Palmieri
It has a frontage of more than one thousand paces, is furnished with very good transversals, and is well supplied with artillery and arquebuses.
He invented the method of sub-dividing the degrees on the arc of an instrument by transversals somewhat in the way that Pedro Nunez had proposed.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
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