Timeline for Terminology question: "Transverse" v. "Transversal"
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| Aug 16, 2011 at 21:42 | comment | added | Jim Conant | Okay, so I've figured out how to rationalize "transversal" as both noun and adjective. "Universal" is a word with same property. And, to turn things on their head, "Universe" is a noun. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 19:14 | comment | added | Tom Goodwillie | Do people really say that? I know they use "birational" like that (a map can be called birational, and when it is then the two varieties involved are also said to be birational), but that's not bad because a map is not called birational unless it has (in the appropriate sense) and inverse. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 18:17 | comment | added | Allen Knutson | How about "two complex-analytic spaces are holomorphic if there is an invertible holomorphism between them"? | |
| Jul 15, 2011 at 14:07 | vote | accept | Jim Conant | ||
| Jul 14, 2011 at 11:33 | comment | added | Tom Goodwillie | I'm not sure I entirely agree about "historical", either. It's true that we talk about historical investigation and writing and associations, but of historic events; but we also talk about historical events, with a different sense. | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 11:29 | comment | added | Tom Goodwillie | That seems to be roughly how the words have come to be used. But most -ical adjectives related to branches of learning do not have the luxury of an -ic adjective to divide up the work with. I can think of one case (geographic/geographical) where there are two words but they seem perfectly synonymous. And note that even if you do have both kind of adjective, they will collapse into one adverb (homotopically). | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 7:59 | comment | added | James Cranch | I suppose the correct use is that homotopical::homotopic = historical::historic. Historic things live inside history, historical things live outside history and deal with it. Homotopic things (like pairs of maps) are related by homotopy, homotopical things (like topologists, conferences, and certain areas of mathematics) deal with it. | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 7:45 | comment | added | Tom Mrowka | How about homotopical! | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 0:59 | history | edited | Tom Goodwillie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2011 at 18:48 | comment | added | Jim Conant | That one also annoys me. | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 18:21 | comment | added | Tom Goodwillie | How about "homotopic" versus "homotopy equivalent" (or "homotopy-equivalent") for a relation between two spaces? | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:52 | comment | added | John Klein | How about "commutative" versus "commuting" diagram? | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:45 | history | edited | Tom Goodwillie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:18 | comment | added | Jim Conant | "Reversal" is another noun with an "al" ending. | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 16:46 | history | answered | Tom Goodwillie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |