transcurrence
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A displacement along a fault or shear zone characterized by lateral or horizontal movement of formations relative to each other, usually in a direction parallel to the fault plane.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This condition results probably quite as much from the constant rubbing and picking of the nose, as from the simple transcurrence of the morbid nasal secretions to which most authors exclusively attribute it ."
- "When boys or bees are out of school or hive, The street or garden then is all alive. In play or work the busy are the best, Come what transcurrence, they are most blest."
- "Among features, which are more easily determined, the following chiefly come into consideration for the purposes of anatomical diagnosis: the embedded character or vertical transcurrence of the medium-sized and smaller veins; the presence or absence of a strongly developed mass of mechanical tissue (sclerenchyma) in connexion with the vascular bundles; and the occurrence of a sheath of large cells around the vascular bundles."
- "Within the horizon of temporal transcurrence, Ellacuria can pursue the issue of the universality and relativity of time that will prove critical to his conception of history."
- "For that reason, A Tactical Sequence is according space for time and place to herald themselves, for the temporal feel, history on its feet, to be prominent in a text like the present—all that is required in the transcurrence of a text's language is to be open and not prejudicial, even to the immediate future."
- "Brittle faults, joints, and dykes which cut the massif are probably related with an Upper Cretaceous NE-SW extension and a Paleogene, probably Eocene E-W transcurrence with NW-SE extension and NE-SW compression."
Etymology
From Latin transcurrens, present participle of transcurrere.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: transcurrens