trans・versalの英語

語源

From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹænsˈvɜːsəl/, /tɹænz-/
• (General American) IPA: /tɹænsˈvɝsəl/, /tɹænz-/

形容詞

transversal (comparative more transversal, superlative most transversal)

1. Running or lying across; transverse.

   a transversal line

2. Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
   • 2017, Barbara Molony, Jennifer Nelson, Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 189:

     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 […] "

   • 2018, Catherine Eschle, Global Democracy, Social Movements, And Feminism, Routledge, →ISBN:

     First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive,  […]

名詞

transversal (plural transversals)

1. A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
   1. (geometry) A line intersecting a pair of parallel lines.
      • 2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357:

        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.

2. (mathematics) A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.

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