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transversal

American  
[trans-vur-suhl, tranz-] / trænsˈvɜr səl, trænz- /

adjective

  1. transverse.


noun

transversals plural
  1. Geometry. a line intersecting two or more lines.

transversal British  
/ trænzˈvɜːsəl /

noun

  1. geometry a line intersecting two or more other lines

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. a less common word for transverse

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of transversal

1400–50; late Middle English (adj.) < Medieval Latin trānsversālis. See transverse, -al 1

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"It's undeniable that we need new transversal responses against organized crime," he said.

From Reuters Feb. 27, 2023

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

To operate an error-protected transversal gate between multiple logical qubits, you operate the gate between corresponding physical qubits in the logical qubits.

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

On the upper surface of her corpulent belly alternate, in transversal bands, bright black, a vivid yellow like that of yolk of egg and a dazzling white like that of snow.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

It has a frontage of more than one thousand paces, is furnished with very good transversals, and is well supplied with artillery and arquebuses.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

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 Forbes, George

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