Transvection

[ad. L. transvectiōn-em, n. of action from transveh-ĕre (-vect-), f. trans across + vehĕre to carry.]

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† 1. The action of carrying or conveying from one place to another; transportation. Obs.

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1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 325. The transvection or transportation of aer … to the same Lungs of the infant.

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1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 330. The consummate salvation of the Saints, or their transvection into those eternal Mansions of glory. Ibid. (1682), Annot. Glanvill’s Lux O., xiii. 105. That transposition … is … a transvection of them, rather than pulsion or traction.

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2. Math. A method used by Clebsch and Gordan for deriving invariants and covariants from a product of two binary forms.

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1876. Salmon, Lessons Introd. Mod. Higher Algebra (ed. 3), xix. 272. If φ, ψ, be covariants … we can obtain from them the series of covariants φx^p–k ψx^q–k (φψ)^k…. This operation, in German called Ueberschiebung, we shall call transvection, and the covariants generated we shall call transvectants of the two given covariants.

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