different between transverse vs transversality

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (noun):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

transverse (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

   Antonym: longitudinal

2. (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4. (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Derived terms

Related terms

• transversal
• transversion

Translations

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Translations

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)

1. To lie or run across; to cross.
2. To traverse or thwart.
3. To overturn.
4. To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

References

• “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
• tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
• tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
• tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]

Etymology 1

From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Alternative forms

• tr?nsvors?

Adverb

tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)

1. Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.

   Synonym: tr?nsversim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tr?nsverse

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus

References

• transverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • transverto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Noun

transversality (countable and uncountable, plural transversalities)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• transversality condition

Related terms

• transverse
• transversal
• transversally

See also

• tangency