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transilient

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tran⋅sil⋅i⋅ent

  [tran-sil-ee-uhnt, -sil-yuhnt]
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–adjective
leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
Origin:
1805–15; < L trānsilient- (s. of trānsiliēns), prp. of trānsilīre to leap across, equiv. to trāns- trans- + -sili- (comb. form of salīre to leap) + -ent- -ent

Related forms:
tran⋅sil⋅i⋅ence, noun
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transilient tran·sil·ient (trān-sĭl'yənt, -zĭl'-)
adj.
Jumping across; passing over. Used especially of the cortical association fibers in the brain that pass between nonadjacent convolutions.

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