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adjective
- Existing in multiple languages.
- The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in games. - English Comedy - Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan (eds) - 1994
- Having the same meaning in many languages.
- No is the symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.
- (context, of a phrase) containing words of multiple languages
- Darien can make jokes - Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise - W. Redfern - 1985
- Operating between different languages
- This receiver, as translator, then performs a kind of " transfer" to encode in a second language a new message that is intended to "mean the same" . . - Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies - James S. Holmes - 1986
- (medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue
- Simultaneous recordings of the potential and integrated neural response of the rat. - Chem. Senses - Hech, Welter & DeSimone? - 1985
Etymology: From trans-, across, + adjective lingual, "having to do with languages or tongues", from Latin lingua, tongue, + adjective suffix -al, from Latin adjective suffix -alis.
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