transcurrence

English

Etymology

From Latin transcurrens, present participle of transcurrere.

Noun

transcurrence (uncountable)

1. A roving here and there; movement.
   • 1858, Sir Willoughby Francis Wade, Observations on Diphtheritis, page 21:

     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 .

   • 1888, W. H. Bakewell, Vision of Faith in the Dream of Time, page 63:

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

2. To appear or occur throughout something.
   • 1908, Hans Solereder, Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons, page 1089:

     Among features, which are more easily determined, the following chiefly come into consideration for the purposes of anatomical diagnosis: the embedded character or vertical transcurrence of the medium-sized and smaller veins; the presence or absence of a strongly developed mass of mechanical tissue (sclerenchyma) in connexion with the vascular bundles; and the occurrence of a sheath of large cells around the vascular bundles.

   • 2000, Kevin F. Burke, The Ground Beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacuría, page 65:

     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.

   • 2019, Frederic Will, A Fred Will Reader, page 10:

     For that reason, A Tactical Sequence is according space for time and place to herald themselves, for the temporal feel, history on its feet, to be prominent in a text like the present—all that is required in the transcurrence of a text's language is to be open and not prejudicial, even to the immediate future.

3. (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.
   • 1995, Revista Brasileira de Geociências, page 79:

     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.

   • 2013, Forese-Carlo Wezel, “The Pacific Island Arcs: Produced by Post-Orogenic Vertical Tectonics?”, in F.-C. Wezel, editor, The Origin of Arcs, page 529:

     The entity of the transcurrence phenomenon has led the author to postulate that the post - orogenic collapse of the marginal basins is accompanied by tectonic rotation and great torsions which have disrupted the Pacific perimeter .

   • 2016, Ola Dahlman, ‎Hans Israelson, Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions, page 53:

     One of the most intensively studied transcurrence zones is the one following the rim of the North American west coast, where the oceanic Pacific plate is moving northwards relative to the continental American plate.

Related terms

• transcur
• transcurrent