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comparative more transversal, superlative most transversal
Running or lying across; transverse. examples
Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc). quotations examples
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, page 189
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
plural transversals
A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
(geometry) A line intersecting a pair of parallel lines. quotations examples
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
(mathematics) A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets. examples