Transversality
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Transversality is a noun meaning The quality of connecting or representing a range of heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
Meaning
The quality of connecting or representing a range of heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
More Meanings
- (mathematics) A property of two intersecting submanifolds, where at every intersection point, their separate tangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambient manifold at that point.
Example Sentences
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Word Forms
- transversalities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transversal, distribution, transitivity, intersection, submanifold, otopy.
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