Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being transversal.
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- noun mathematics a property of two intersecting
submanifolds , where at every intersection point, their separatetangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambientmanifold at that point.
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Examples
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The public debt/GDP ratio tells you whether the government has historically tried to violate a transversality condition.
From Musgrave to Shaviro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There, an enlightened public official is pursuing a policy of “transversalidad” transversality, which we might translate as “cross-cutting collaboration,” getting people out of their departmental “silos” to work together.
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As Frank Hahn demonstrated the dynamic instability of the economy (a problem posed by the absence of futures markets going out infinitely far into the future; in technical terms, the absence of a transversality condition), he would excitedly exclaim that he had put another nail in the coffin of capitalism.
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When it's our choice, we have not waited for starting to I would say implement more rationalization and more - sometimes more transversality.
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The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously.
Planet Atheism 2009
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For ads and for transversality, suffice it to say you lose readers real fast if they need to scroll down; the probability for a banner to be viewed decreases exponentially: 10 scrolls divide the probability by 100 or more.
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On the concept of transversality cf. Félix Guattari, 'La Transversalité' in
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET mute 2008
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