Etymology From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.
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Running or lying across; transverse.
a transversal line
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Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
This kind of politics acknowledges what Yuval-Davis characterizes as transversal feminism which, much like the second wave feminist standpoint theory, “aims to be an alternative to the universalism/relativism dichotomy […]"2017, Barbara Molony, Jennifer Nelson, Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 189:
First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive, […]2018, Catherine Eschle, Global Democracy, Social Movements, And Feminism, Routledge, →ISBN:
Etymology From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.
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A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences A line intersecting a pair of parallel lines.
Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357:
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Mathematics, Sciences A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.