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Intersect vs Transverse - What's the difference?

intersect | transverse |

As verbs the difference between intersect and transverse

is that intersect is to cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts while transverse is to overturn; to change.

As an adjective transverse is

situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.

As a noun transverse is

anything that is transverse or athwart.

intersect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
    • Parallel lines don't intersect .
    Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
  • * Cowper
    • Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.
  • (mathematics) of two sets, to have at least one element in common

    • Related terms

    * intersection

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    transverse

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
  • (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

    • Antonyms

    * (lying across) longitudinal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

    • Verb

    (transvers)
  • To overturn; to change.
  • * Rev. Charles Leslie
    • And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  • (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
    • (Duke of Buckingham)
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