Difference between Transverse and Transversal

What is the difference between Transverse and Transversal?

Transverse as an adjective is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction. while Transversal as an adjective is running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.

Transverse

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction. Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

Transversal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.

We hope you now know whether to use Transverse or Transversal in your sentence.

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