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transversal

[trans′vər·səl]
(mathematics)
A line intersecting a given family of lines. Also known as semisecant.
A curve orthogonal to a hypersurface.
If π is a given map of a set X onto a set Y, a transversal for π is a subset T of X with the property that T contains exactly one point of π-1(y) for each y ε Y.
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For (20a), (20b), (20c), and (20d) it is direct to check that the equilibria ([+ or-] [square root of v],0) transversally meets [summation] at [rho] = [+ or-] [square root of v] or equivalently v = [[rho].sup.2].
It refers to modes of the production of urban space that (a) operate with a specific form of agency and temporality, (b) engage transversally with official logics, (c) generate new modes of politics through practices that produce new kinds of citizens, claims, circuits, and contestations, and (d) create highly unequal and heterogeneous cities.
In addition to these major themes, the book deals transversally with recurring motifs present in the corpus, such as the question of naming, the pervasiveness of inter textuality, or the perpetuation in the present of palimpsestic models of oppression dating back to slavery (see, for example, p.
There was no opportunity to discuss the results transversally within the Stakeholder Dialogue.
Utilizing the metaphor of a kaleidoscope where each turn brings new insights in the field of family dynamics and family diversity, the book offers five perspectives that connect the chapters transversally and show not only how the field of family studies investigates diversity and complexity, but also how it is composed of diverse and complex themes and angles.
2, 3, 5E-F), the spherulitic part of the microstructure is no longer observable, and an equigranular mosaic of sub-euhedral and locally euhedral calcite crystals become recognizable in the middle sector of the rostra, which are the product of transversally cut prismatic calcite crystals (that is, perpendicular to the c-axis).
Surgery was undertaken through a small skin incision transversally above the inguinal crease and over the sapheno-femoral junction.
Median suture line on front of head not extending to labrum; ocelli absent; antennae clavate with 7 articles; collum transversally elliptical and as wide as head, which is not entirely concealed in dorsal aspect by the collum, with irregularly placed tubercles on the surface of the collum, and lateral edge with 8 small lobes in each side (Fig.
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In contrast, grass-cutting species do not do exhibit this pivot movement and the grass blades are cut linearly and transversally along their length (Lopes et al.
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