transversal

Meanings

Adjective

• Running or lying across; transverse.
• Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting hetergeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).

Noun

• A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
• A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.

Origin

• From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.