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transversally en · ADV

Etymology

From transversal + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a transverse manner.
  2. In regard to a transversal.
  3. In a way that exhibits or pertains to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
    • [... not to subsi]tute one binary code for another—West–East, East–West—but to think transversally and ecosophically across paradigms. Behind the “Degrees of Racism” report is a desire to think across borders, beyond individuality and community—to[…] 2018, David R. Cole, Joff P.N. Bradley, Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
    • Urging us to think transversally across three ecological registers – mental, social and environmental – Guattari emphasises the necessity to confront our enslavement in global capitalism. 2016, Helene Frichot, Deleuze and the City, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
    • Moreover, art can think “transversally” with scientific functions in artistic ways, just as science can think transversally with artistic sensations in scientific ways. I would argue that such transversal thinking is the possible […] 2015, Liza Piper, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 95:

Forms

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more transversally Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most transversally Degree=Sup lexicographic
transversely alternative lexicographic