transverse
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An international team of researchers has now achieved that goal by demonstrating a quantized transverse drift of light.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
One tabulation of the cost to double the number of buses so fans can better transverse the city on public transit is estimated at upward of $1 billion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
Cashore spelled it correctly, then clinched the title with the word “transept,” an architectural term for the transverse part of a cross-shaped church.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024
This device was able to exhibit a transverse thermoelectric effect significantly larger than that produced solely by existing magnetic materials capable of exhibiting the anomalous Nernst effect in the first-ever experimental demonstration of its kind.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2024
Figure 3.2: In water waves and other transverse waves, the ups and downs are in a different direction from the forward movement of the wave.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing transverse
Waves and Wave Properties - Introductory
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Waves and Wave Properties - Middle School
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Physics - Introductory
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