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Transversal   Listen
adjective
Transversal  adj.  Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Transversal" Quotes from Famous Books



... ground-floor, were two windows, which resembled all the other windows of the house. The casing of white stone ended below the sill in a richly carved shell, and rose above the window in an arch, supported at its apex by the head-piece of a cross, which divided the glass sashes in four unequal parts; for the transversal bar, placed at the height of that in a Latin cross, made the lower sashes of the window nearly double the height of the upper, the latter rounding at the sides into the arch. The coping of the arch was ornamented with three rows of brick, placed one above the other, the bricks ...
— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... atom is not vibrating in the direction of propagation, but across the line in which the wave is travelling. Thus the vibration of the air is said to be longitudinal, but the vibrations of the Aether are transversal. An illustration of the transverse motion of a light wave may be obtained by taking a rope and imparting to it a series of undulations by shaking it up and down, when it will be observed that the wave motion of the rope is transverse to the straight line in which it is propagated. The physical ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper



Words linked to "Transversal" :   cross, crosswise, thwartwise



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