Meanings
comparative more transversally · superlative most transversally · alternative transversely
- In a transverse manner.
- In regard to a transversal.
- In a way that exhibits or pertains to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
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 32 more examples
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[... not to subsi]tute one binary code for another—West–East, East–West—but to think transversally and ecosophically across paradigms. Behind the “Degrees of Racism” report is a desire to think across borders, beyond individuality and community—to[…]
2018, David R. Cole, Joff P.N. Bradley, Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 70
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin a transverse manner
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