Transcurrence

Quick meaning: Transcurrence is a noun meaning A roving here and there; movement.

Meaning

A roving here and there; movement.

More Meanings

1. Appearance or occurrence throughout something.
2. (geology) A displacement along a fault or shear zone characterized by lateral or horizontal movement of formations relative to each other, usually in a direction parallel to the fault plane.

Example Sentences

When boys or bees are out of school or hive, The street or garden then is all alive. In play or work the busy are the best, Come what transcurrence, they are most blest.

Within the horizon of temporal transcurrence, Ellacuria can pursue the issue of the universality and relativity of time that will prove critical to his conception of history.

This condition results probably quite as much from the constant rubbing and picking of the nose, as from the simple transcurrence of the morbid nasal secretions to which most authors exclusively attribute it .

Brittle faults, joints, and dykes which cut the massif are probably related with an Upper Cretaceous NE-SW extension and a Paleogene, probably Eocene E-W transcurrence with NW-SE extension and NE-SW compression.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include traversing, translumination, transillumination, crossunder, interfluency, thereabouts.

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