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traversal

[truh-vur-suhl] / trəˈvɜr səl /


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Headlined by conductor Marco Armiliato, soprano Lisette Oropesa as the heroine Elvira and tenor Lawrence Brownlee as her beloved Arturo, this was a musically idiomatic and expressive traversal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

“You’re talking about a snake robot that can do surface traversal on ice, go through holes and swim underwater — one robot that can conquer all three worlds,” Rohan Thakker, a robotics technologist at JPL.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

But the video featured quite a bit of environmental traversal as well — Gollum spent a lot of time scaling walls and making great leaps to avoid hazards.

From The Verge • May 24, 2022

It has established several performance series, toured internationally and worked its way steadily through all 215 of Bach’s cantatas, a traversal it completed in 2006 — whereupon it went back and started over again.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018

Thus he says, "When the traversal is at an infinite distance, all is unimaginable."

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman




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