Talk:across variable
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This page was transwikied from w:Across variable.
- History
- 12:46, February 26, 2005 Aranel m (sort stub)
- (cur) (last) 22:27, January 2, 2005 Ta bu shi da yu
- (cur) (last) 11:26, September 30, 2004 66.189.237.82
- (cur) (last) 08:06, September 18, 2004 Michael Hardy (I will explain this on the discussion page.)
- (cur) (last) 06:52, September 18, 2004 Michael Hardy (Adding a substub notice. I wonder if the person who wrote this meant "cross variable" rather than "across variable"?)
- (cur) (last) 19:21, September 15, 2004 Belgian man m (+ link to "velocity" + trefword)
- (cur) (last) 12:02, September 10, 2004 68.0.134.89 (New Start... 2nd try, something is better than nothing.)
- Talk
The two articles that link to this one seem to have in mind something quite different, and, confusingly, both use voltage as their example, just as this one does. I suspect that cross variable was intended here, so that it should begin by saying
- A cross variable is ...
instead of
- Across variable is ...
It makes sense to speak of voltage being relative in some contexts; that seems to be what is meant by saying voltage is a "cross variable". It also makes sense to assume voltage flows across a boundary in some cases; that is what is meant by saying voltage is an "across variable" in the article titled w:flux. Michael Hardy 00:09, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- A very cursory search perusal gives a typical definition at:[1] I think across variable is what is meant. Some of the other definitions found also use voltage. -Vina 20:00, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- w:Flux uses 'across variable' as a counterpoint to 'through variable', so I think that the leading 'a' is appropriate. That said, both terms smack of juvenility, as though they were coined by an academically but not linguistically precocious high-school student. --Smack (talk) 01:23, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)