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transversal

[trans-vur-suhl, tranz-] / trænsˈvɜr səl, trænz- /
ADJECTIVE
transverse
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"It's undeniable that we need new transversal responses against organized crime," he said.

From Reuters Feb. 27, 2023

Some are implemented by a group of transversal gates that we call the Clifford group.

From Scientific American Apr. 19, 2022

To perform an error-protected one-qubit transversal gate, you perform the gate on all the physical qubits encoding the logical qubit.

From Scientific American Apr. 19, 2022

Earlier this month, the EU's research commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, seemed to confirm these suspicions when she said "transversal issues need to be tackled first".

From BBC Oct. 25, 2021

If two straight lines which are cut by a transversal make alternate angles equal, the lines cannot meet, however far they be produced, hence they are parallel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

He invented the method of sub-dividing the degrees on the arc of an instrument by transversals somewhat in the way that Pedro Nunez had proposed.

From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George

It has a frontage of more than one thousand paces, is furnished with very good transversals, and is well supplied with artillery and arquebuses.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander




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