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transverse

1. Geometry denoting the axis that passes through the foci of a hyperbola
2. (of a flute, etc.) held almost at right angles to the player's mouth, so that the breath passes over a hole in the side to create a vibrating air column within the tube of the instrument
3. Astronomy another word for tangential (sense 2)
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chambranle

A structural feature, often ornamental, enclosing the sides and top of a doorway, window, fireplace, or similar opening. The top piece or lintel is called the transverse and the side pieces or jambs the ascendants.
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transverse

To cross from side to side.
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The research on the mechanical properties of transversely isotropic rocks has attracted the attention of many scholars.
4(a) the overhead horizontal line is transversely located while the overhead horizontal line is radially located in Fig.
Chadwick and Seet [9] and, Singh and Sharma [10] have discussed the propagation of plane harmonic waves in transversely isotropic thermoelastic materials.
In this paper, it is our main aim to eliminate the need of assuming semiempirical laws, yield condition, creep-strain laws, jump conditions, and so forth to obtain the collapse pressure in transversely isotropic thick-walled circular cylinder under internal and external pressure using generalized Lebesgue strain measure.
In this paper we have discussed the propagation of shear waves in a transversely isotropic fluid saturated porous layer resting on a homogeneous elastic half-space, lying under an elastic isotropic and homogeneous layer with rigid boundary with irregularity at the interface.
It's the same size as the engine used transversely in the X-type, but has more power and is mounted front to rear for rear wheel drive.
Contrary to the description in the article "Bad vibrations for Javelin passengers" (News, PE 22 September) that state that the yaw damper "which sits on the bogie, are transversely mounted ...
For most experiments, scaled digital images of the individual leaves were prepared for subsequent determination of initial leaf area; for others initial images of excised leaf strips (0.7 mm wide cut transversely across the midpoint of the leaves) were prepared.
The design was described as 'a transversely offset, double-level armrest' that allowed 'two adjacent passengers to rest their arms on the armrest simultaneously, without bumping into each other, as if being given a few inches of extra width'.
The melt-spun fibers were transversely compressed in a Wabash compression molding press at room temperature under 27.6 MPa pressure for 10 min (Fig.
* Features a spacious cab, easy-to-read instrument panel and transversely mounted engine in a frame small enough to access and work in some of the tightest job sites
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