(genetics) A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa / (literature) The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.

plural of transversion

In a transverse manner. / In regard to a transversal. / In a way that exhibits or pertains to transversality; connecting hetergeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).

(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.

The condition of being transverse; transverseness

plural of transversality

plural of transversal

Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

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

To lie or run across; to cross. / To traverse or thwart. / To overturn. / To alter or transform. / (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.