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transversally

transversally adverb: in a transverse manner.

Adverb

transversally (comparative more transversally, superlative most transversally)

  1. In a transverse manner.
  2. In regard to a transversal.
  3. In a way that exhibits or pertains to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
    • Moreover, art can think “transversally” with scientific functions in artistic ways, just as science can think transversally with artistic sensations in scientific ways. I would argue that such transversal thinking is the possible […]2015, Liza Piper, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 95
    • Urging us to think transversally across three ecological registers – mental, social and environmental – Guattari emphasises the necessity to confront our enslavement in global capitalism.2016, Helene Frichot, Deleuze and the City, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of transversally

comparativemore transversally
superlativemost transversally
alternative formtransversely

Origin of transversally

From transversal + -ly.

Questions about transversally

What does transversally mean?
Transversally means in a transverse manner.
What part of speech is transversally?
Transversally is an adverb.

Words near transversally in the dictionary

  1. transversalis fascia
  2. transversalities
  3. transversality
  4. transversality condition
  5. transversality conditions
  6. transversally
  7. transversals
  8. transversaria
  9. transversaries
  10. transversarium
  11. transversary

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