In geometry, a transversal is a line that passes through two lines in the same plane at two distinct points. Transversals play a role in establishing whether...

Look up transversal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transversal may refer to: Transversal (combinatorics), a set containing exactly one member of...

by a third straight line (a transversal) in the same plane, the corresponding angles of intersection with the transversal are congruent. Since these are...

line (called the transversal), and the interior angles between the two lines and the transversal lying on one side of the transversal add up to less than...

In geometry, a transversal plane is a plane that intersects (not contains) two or more lines or planes. A transversal plane may also form dihedral angles...

between sides v and w. Transversal (geometry) § Corresponding angles Townsend, Richard (1865). Chapters on the Modern Geometry of the Point, Line, and...

geometry is the branch of geometry studying convex sets, mainly in Euclidean space. Convex sets occur naturally in many areas: computational geometry...

Absolute geometry is a geometry based on an axiom system for Euclidean geometry without the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. Traditionally...

In geometry, two geometric objects are perpendicular if their intersection forms right angles (angles that are 90 degrees or π/2 radians wide) at the point...

a transversal which intersects an element of R only once, and such that every point on a transversal lies on a line of R. The set of transversals of...

dimension In the context of determining parallelism in Euclidean geometry, a transversal is a line that intersects two other lines that may or not be parallel...

In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same distance in a given direction...

necessary when a problem contains transversals in addition to cevians. Any vertex that is on both sides the transversal crosses will have a split mass....

In mathematics, contact geometry is the study of a geometric structure on smooth manifolds given by a hyperplane distribution in the tangent bundle satisfying...

detail, see centripetal force. In the modern terminology of differential geometry, polar coordinates provide coordinate charts for the differentiable manifold...

heavily into the Geometrical relations of numbers establishing his Transversal (geometry) theorem. Thābit described a generalized proof of the Pythagorean...

A transverse mode of electromagnetic radiation is a particular electromagnetic field pattern of the radiation in the plane perpendicular (i.e., transverse)...

The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national...

The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Spanish: Eje Volcánico Transversal), also known as the Transvolcanic Belt and locally as the Sierra Nevada (Snowy Mountain...

Helly's theorem is a basic result in discrete geometry on the intersection of convex sets. It was discovered by Eduard Helly in 1913, but not published...

{\mathcal {S}}=({\mathcal {S}}^{1},\dots ,{\mathcal {S}}^{n})} of n pairwise transversal and orthogonal foliations of connected submanifolds of codimension 1...

skew lines all meet three other skew lines, any transversal of the first set of three meets any transversal of the second set. In higher-dimensional space...

this point (see diagram): a) different tangent lines (transversal intersection, after transversality), or b) the tangent line in common and they are crossing...

of the 20th century, the assumption had been that the three-dimensional geometry of the universe (its description in terms of locations, shapes, distances...

In Euclidean geometry, Ceva's theorem is a theorem about triangles. Given a triangle △ABC, let the lines AO, BO, CO be drawn from the vertices to a common...

This is a glossary of terms specific to differential geometry and differential topology. The following three glossaries are closely related: Glossary of...

definition of transversality has to be refined in order to deal with Banach spaces!) "Transversal" is a noun; the adjective is "transverse." quote from...

triangles in plane geometry. Suppose we have a triangle △ABC, and a transversal line that crosses BC, AC, AB at points D, E, F respectively, with D,...

combinations of these sectors have been the EB, BE (of so-called reverse geometry), three-sector BEB and four-sector EBEB (electric-magnetic-electric-magnetic)...

matchings of the graph. This is called a transversal matroid, and it is a special case of a gammoid. The transversal matroids are the dual matroids to the...