transversal
pronunciation
How to pronounce transversal in British English:
UK [træns'vɜ:səl]
How to pronounce transversal in American English:
US [træns'vɜsəl]
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- Adjective:
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
Word Origin
- transversal (adj.)
- "running or lying across," mid-15c., from Medieval Latin transversalis (13c.), from transvers-, stem of transvertere (see transverse). Earlier in the same sense was transversary (c. 1400). As a noun, from 1590s. Related: Transversally.
Example
- 1. The dynamic responses of axially loaded beams with elastic supports subject to transversal impact was investigated .
- 2. The development of mesoscale transversal disturbances in the baroclinic atmosphere .
- 3. These findings have been corroborated by another transversal study , carried out with college students , and two cross-cultural projects carried out in collaboration with scotland and canada .
- 4. It is pointed out that the wave of plasma channel can be decomposed into transversal and longitudinal wave , and different effects of the wave on the material removal in different pulse width are analyzed .
- 5. Applied anatomy of greater trochanter bone-periosteum flap pedicled with transversal and middle gluteal muscle branches of lateral femoral circumflex artery .