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).

   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

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   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

plural transversals

1. A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
   1. geometryA 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

2. mathematicsA set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.