Transcurrent

//tɹanzˈkʌɹənt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Passing transversely.
  2. 2
    Pertaining to a fault caused by horizontal displacement.

    "Some of these faults may have been the site at which huge blocks slid past one another – transcurrent movement – rather than moving ‘up and down’."

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"Some of these faults may have been the site at which huge blocks slid past one another – transcurrent movement – rather than moving ‘up and down’."

Etymology

From (present participle of) Latin transcurrere.

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