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Transilience

Transilience \Tran*sil"i*ence\, Transiliency \Tran*sil"i*en*cy\, n. [L. transiliens, p. pr. of transilire to leap across or over; trans across, over + salire to leap.] A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] ``An unadvised transiliency.''
--Glanvill.

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transilience

n. 1 something transilient 2 a leap across something, or from one thing to another

Usage examples of "transilience".

I was given rooms in the New Quadrangle, fancier than my old student room in the Shrine Quadrangle, and some nice lab space in Tower Hall to set up an experimental transilience field station.

And there my story, so far as it has any interest to the Ekumen or to research in transilience, comes to an end.

If my double transilience field had established itself permanently, it was a matter of real importance to temporal science, not only to myself.

So, now: I hope the Stabiles will accept this report from a farmer they never heard of, and that the engineers of transilience may see it as at least a footnote to their experiments.