(genetics) A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa / (literature) The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.

plural of transversion

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

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

Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

Anything that is transverse or athwart. / (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

To lie or run across; to cross. / To traverse or thwart. / To overturn. / To alter or transform. / (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

In a transverse manner.

plural of transversal

(mathematics) A property of two intersecting submanifolds, where at every intersection point, their separate tangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambient manifold at that point.