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‖ saltus|ˈsæltəs|
[L. = leap.]
A ‘leap’ or sudden transition; a breach of continuity. Also in Comb. Cf. salto mortale s.v. salto 1.
1665Hooke Microgr. 228 No Experiment yet known to prove a Saltus, or skipping from one degree of rarity to another. 1875Whitney Life Lang. xiv. 291 These would be the real analogues of speech, and would bridge the saltus of which some are so afraid. 1894A. C. Fraser Locke's Essay Annotated II. iv. xii. 348 The inductive saltus, which transcends this datum. 1913E. W. Hobson Squaring the Circle ii. 18 There is no jumping to the limit as the supposed end of an essentially endless process, to be reached by some inscrutable saltus. 1923G. B. Shaw in Nation & Athenæum 10 Feb. 714/2 He [sc. Wright] was hampered not only by the mistakes of Pasteur, but by a remarkable saltus empiricus made by a famous bacteriological acrobat..named Metchnikoff. 1934A. C. Ewing Idealism viii. 407 One can..pass from one to the other without a saltus in aliud genus. 1951J. Holloway Lang. & Intelligence iii. 55 There must be a saltus naturae, an innate idea of symbolization must come to fruition. |