Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of conveying or carrying over.
  • noun In mathematics, the operation of obtaining a covariant by operating upon one with another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of conveying or carrying over.

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  • noun genetics An epigenetic interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome
  • noun mathematics A kind of linear mapping which leaves all points on one axis fixed, while other points are shifted parallel to the axis by a distance proportional to their perpendicular distance from the axis
  • noun The act of supernatural flight, such as by a witch

Etymologies

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transvect +‎ -ion. Coined in the genetic sense by Edward B. Lewis in 1954.

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Examples

  • These are for example transvection and sex-linked dosage compensation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • Most cases of transvection seem to involve nonreciprocal action of enhancers or silencers in trans.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • * '' saffron '' toga - worn by augurs and priestesses, white with a purple band, also worn by consuls on public festivals and equites during a transvection

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • They also differentiated by colours used: the toga praetextata, with a purple border, worn by male children and magistrates during official ceremonies the toga picta or toga palmata, with a gold border, used by generals in their Roman triumph | triumphs trabea '- toga entirely in purple, worn by statues of deities and emperors saffron toga - worn by augurs and priestesses, white with a purple band, also worn by consuls on public festivals and equites during a transvection toga with red borders - wore by men and women for festivals

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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  • The supernatural act of levitating, floating or more specifically flying through the air. While levitation and magical flight can equate to acts of stage magic or astral projection through the use of psychoactive entheogens, transvection usually refers to the experience of bodily movement in defiance of gravitational laws. (Wikipedia)

    May 23, 2008