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- noun Plural form of
transversal .
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Examples
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H has the two transversals {0, 1, 2} and {0, 1, 3}.
The Axiom of Choice Bell, John L. 2008
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It has a frontage of more than one thousand paces, is furnished with very good transversals, and is well supplied with artillery and arquebuses.
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He paid the greatest attention to the stability of mounting, to the orientation of his instruments, to the graduation of the arcs by the then new method of transversals, and to the aperture sight used upon his pointer.
History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892
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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.
History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892
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The akusto elastic effect can take place both via the measurement of the longitudinal (thrust) wave and via the measurement of the transversals (shearing) wave, or via evaluation of the change of both waves.
Pressemitteilung WebService - Pressemitteilungen & Pressemeldungen kostenlos 2009
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Strategy • Differentiated instruction - to remediate specific content topics based on results from a common unit based assessment - properties of polygons, - lines (including parallel, perpendicular, transversals, and linear pair), - complementary and supplementary, - word problems (interpreting and writing), - polygons and lines in the real world.
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Chantal Pontbriand, has instead operated along theoretical transversals, arranging works on the basis of four "code-concepts": the archive, the machine, montage, and the nonverbal.
artforum.com 2009
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Stated in terms of transversals, then, Zermelo's second (1908) formulation of AC amounts to the assertion that any family of mutually disjoint nonempty sets has a transversal. [
The Axiom of Choice Bell, John L. 2008
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