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transilient
[ tran-sil-ee-uhnt, -sil-yuhnt ]
adjective
- leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
transilient
/ trænˈsɪlɪənt /
adjective
- passing quickly from one thing to another
Derived Forms
- tranˈsilience, noun
Other Words From
- tran·sili·ence noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of transilient1
Word History and Origins
Origin of transilient1
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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