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transilient

[ tran-sil-ee-uhnt, -sil-yuhnt ]

adjective

  1. leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.


transilient

/ trænˈsɪlɪənt /

adjective

  1. passing quickly from one thing to another
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • tranˈsilience, noun
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Other Words From

  • tran·sili·ence noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of transilient1

1805–15; < Latin trānsilient- (stem of trānsiliēns ), present participle of trānsilīre to leap across, equivalent to trāns- trans- + -sili- (combining form of salīre to leap) + -ent- -ent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of transilient1

C19: from Latin transilīre to jump over, from trans- + salīre to leap
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Example Sentences

It seems likely that the transilient advance was in the direction of increased cerebral complexity, associated with greater freedom of speech, and a strengthened sense of kinship.

From our frankly biological point of view there seems considerable warrant for the suggestion that Man arose as a saltatory or transilient variation or "sport" in a gregarious Simian stock, which was not too hard-pressed by a struggle for subsistence either as regards food or climate, which was not too severely menaced by ever-persecuting stronger foes, which lived in conditions implying some measure of temporary isolation, in-breeding, and daily "brain-stretching" education.

Such words as "freaks" and "sports" express a truth, suggested by Mr Galton's phrase "transilient variations," that organisms may pass with seeming abruptness from one form of equilibrium to another.

Transilient, tran-sil′i-ent, adj. leaping across.—n.

The occurrence of saltatory, transilient, or discontinuous variations or mutations.33.I.e.,

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