单词 | transilient |
释义 | transilientadj. Leaping or passing from one thing to another; characterized by abrupt transition or change. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > change processes > [adjective] > changing from one mineral to another transilient1630 1630 E. Layfield Mappe Mans Mortality & Vanity 53 Whether his affections doe adhære to the world, or are transilient and surmount the world. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. p. v The Transilient Rocks, an interesting series, in which one substance..passes into another, as granite into porphyry, trap into wacken. 1894 F. Galton in Mind 3 368 The inference or connotation is that no variation can establish itself unless it be of the character of a sport, that is, by a leap from one position to another, or as we may phrase it, through ‘transilient’ variation. 1994 Amer. Spectator Feb. 105/2 A transilient educational experience for all 1960s retreads not currently serving in the Clinton administration: an interactive workshop for white people to examine their daily experience of white skin privilege. CompoundsΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. at Transilient Transilient fibers, nerve-fibers passing from one convolution of the brain to another not immediately adjacent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1630 |
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