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transfluent, a.|ˈtrɑːnsfluːənt, ˈtræns-|
[ad. L. transfluent-em, pr. pple. of transfluĕre to flow through.]
a. Flowing across or through; in Her. said of a stream represented as flowing through a bridge. rare.
c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Transfluent, an heraldic term, to express water appearing, in a coat, as if running through a bridge. 1847Parker Gloss. Her. 309.
b. spec. in Geomorphol., applied to glacial ice undergoing transfluence.
1951Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers Pub. No. 15, 2 Like Penck he clearly recognised that where a pass was crossed by diffluent or transfluent ice it was markedly eroded by it. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 429/2 Many of the breaches made by transfluent ice involve considerable arrangement of the drainage pattern. |