单词 | transversion |
释义 | transversionn.1 1. The action of turning across or athwart; intersection; a turning into something else, conversion, perversion, transformation; transposition. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] overchangingc1384 transmutation1398 permutationa1425 transforming1435 resolutiona1450 translating1503 resolvinga1513 conversion1549 transposing1550 conversationa1570 transmuting1579 projection?1583 transmigration1618 version1626 transversion1656 transmogrification1661 converting1711 metamorphosing1730 metastasis1818 turn-over1825 interconversion1865 transnaturation1873 transmorphism1888 segue1945 the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] overcastinga1398 intersecation1412 intersection1559 interfering1562 decussation1656 transversion1656 intercision1726 incidency1789 meshing1955 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Transversion, a turning away or crosse, a traversing, or going athwart. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 96 Nor shall we take in the mystical Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. 1716–20 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 9 As if they intended a Transversion of Christendom to its first Paganism. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 331 A transversion common with him. 2. Logic. (See quot. 1933.) Obsolete or rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > conversion of a proposition > [noun] > types of contraposition1551 conversion per accidens1599 infinitation1652 transversion1890 1890 E. E. C. Jones Elem. Logic xix. 143 These may be called Mixed Eductions, or Transversions. 1890 E. E. C. Jones Elem. Logic xix. 148 In Transversion, the most interesting points are that all Inferentials and Alternatives may..be fully and accurately expressed in Categorical form. 1933 C. A. Mace Princ. Logic vii. 121 A transversion may be defined as an immediate inference from a proposition of one logical form to another proposition which contains the same ‘material content’ but is of a different logical form. 3. Molecular Biology. The occurrence in a nucleic acid of a purine in place of a pyrimidine or vice versa. Cf. transition n. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > genetic information storage > change in structure of nucleotide pair transition1959 transversion1959 1959 E. Freese in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 45 631 The mutagenic effect of the second kind involves the ‘transversion’ of a nucleotide pair, in which a purine is replaced by a pyrimidine. 1980 Nature 8 May 82/2 All the point mutations are transversions in the second position of each of four codons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). transversionn.2 A turning into verse; concrete a metrical version of something. Quot. 1672 appears to combine this with transversion n.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry > turning into poetry poetizing1632 transversion1796 poetization1871 poeticization1923 poeticizing1965 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > metrical version metrea1375 metro1619 versal1657 transversion1796 versification1821 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 4 My first Rule is the Rule of Transversion, or Regula Duplex: changing Verse into Prose, or Prose into verse.] 1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 1 404 The following transversion of a passage from Ossian's Carthon, may give an idea of the practicability of such metres in the English tongue. 1898 Q. Rev. Jan. 100 Bayes's rules for the composition of plays..—the rule of transversion for instance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11656n.21796 |
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