transverse
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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
The use of transverse thermoelectric effects in magnetic materials is expected to simplify the structure of thermoelectric conversion devices compared to the longitudinal thermoelectric effects, where electric and thermal currents are converted in parallel directions.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
The stage was laid out transverse style, so that the audience flanked the presentation on two sides.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2023
In a transverse wave, as the wave is moving in one direction, it is creating a disturbance in a different direction.
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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