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单词 saltatory
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saltatoryn.2

Etymology: < medieval Latin saltātōrium, neuter singular of saltātōrius (see saltatory adj.) used substantively. Compare saltory n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsaltatory.
historical.
= saltary n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > place frequented by
saltary1598
form1799
pen1829
yard1829
saltory1867
saltatory1903
1903 Edinb. Rev. July 179 The saltatory was a contrivance by which deer could make their way into the park, but could not jump back again.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

saltatoryadj.n.1

/ˈsaltətəri/
Etymology: < Latin saltātōrius, < saltātor : see saltator n.
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, characterized by, or adapted for dancing.
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society > leisure > dancing > [adjective] > involving or characterized by dancing
saltatory1656
saltatorian1823
hyporchematic1850
saltatorial1893
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Saltatory,..of or belonging to dancing, vaulting, &c.
a1817 R. L. Edgeworth Mem. (1820) I. 98 I soon began to avoid exhibiting my saltatory talents, and I seldom danced.
1851 N. Hawthorne Old News in Snow Image i. 155 There is an incidental notice of the ‘dancing-school near the Orange-Tree’, whence we may infer that the saltatory art was occasionally practised.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 183 He could make a saltatory automaton.
2.
a. Pertaining to, characterized by, or adapted for leaping; spec. = saltatorial adj. 2.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > relating to or characterized by
springing1655
saltatorial1789
saltatory1847
saltative1911
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [adjective] > manner
saltatory1908
saltating1941
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. iii. 43 The way in which sheep carry themselves on abrupt and saltatory occasions.
1874 St. G. Mivart Common Frog 1 What is a Frog?.. ‘The Frog is a small saltatory Reptile’, will probably be the reply of the majority.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 262 The Amphipoda..are characterized by..their ordinarily saltatory habits.
1891 Punch Christmas No. 8 The position of the Moon..is also favourable to saltatory exercise on the part of the cow.
1908 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 19 199 The coarser particles due to corrosion..and to washing move forward at ever varying rates in saltatory fashion, the variable or leaping movements arising largely in combinations of friction with inertia.
b. Pathology. = saltatoric adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp > qualities or types
synclonic1822
ergotic1875
saltatoric spasm1877
saltatory1881
neuroclonic1899
dystonic1917
Meige1972
1881 J. Ross Treat. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. 341 Saltatory Spasm.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 106 Or when placed on her feet [a patient] may be forced to progress by a series of springing movements (saltatory spasm).
c. figurative. Proceeding by abrupt movement.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adjective] > not continuous or occurring in jumps or steps
saltatory1844
quantal1917
stepwise1934
stepped1935
1844 R. W. Emerson Exper. in Wks. (1906) I. 183 Nature hates calculators; her methods are saltatory and impulsive.
1894 H. F. Osborn From Greeks to Darwin 200 Another highly characteristic feature of his theory was, that he [St. Hilaire] included in it what has recently been termed ‘saltatory evolution’, and strongly opposed Lamarck's fundamental principle that all transformation is extremely slow.
d. Physiology. Used to designate the mode of transmission in a myelinated nerve in which the nerve impulse ‘jumps’ from node to node.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > action of nervous system > [adjective] > reception or transmission of impulses
projectional1852
facilitatory1867
conductive1881
cheirokinaesthetic1900
nociceptive1904
interoceptive1906
photoreceptive1906
proprioceptive1906
adrenotropic1915
photosensory1919
adrenergic1934
saltatory1934
somatotopic1945
psychomotoric1949
supersensitive1949
mechanoreceptive1951
trans-synaptic1954
somatotopical1958
electroreceptive1967
psychomotorical1969
1934 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 110 308 The pictures could be accounted for if progression were saltatory and by a process such as Lillie (1925) has described as occurring in the iron wire model... Here, due to reactivation by eddy currents flowing around the segments, activity progresses in jumps from node to node and consequently is more rapid than in the simple model.
1949 Jrnl. Physiol. 108 339 The finding..that a large decrease in node spacing can occur without a drop in conduction velocity is shown not to conflict with the theory of saltatory conduction.
1977 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 74 211/1 Myelinated nerve conducts by transmission of electrical excitation from node to node through local electrical circuits. This ‘saltatory’ mode of conduction results from a discontinuity in the excitability properties of the axon: excitable regions (nodes) alternate with nonexcitable passive core conductors (myelinated internodes).
e. Biology. Of the movement of small particles within cells: proceeding in directed jerks.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [adjective] > of protoplasm or particles in cell
streaming1894
saltatory1964
1964 L. I. Rebhun in Allen & Kamiya Primitive Motile Syst. in Cell Biol. 503 Particles may at one time undergo Brownian movement and suddenly undergo a process converting this to sudden, discontinuous motion, i.e., saltatory motion.
1970 Nature 7 Feb. 559/1 It may well be..that microtubules in brain function in the saltatory transport of material and vesicles from their site of formation in the cell body to their site of utilization at the synaptic endings.
1970 Nature 5 Sept. 1006/2 Translocation has been pictured as a saltatory interaction between enzyme-containing vesicles and fibrous proteins, chiefly micro~tubules.
3. Biology. saltatory replication, a hypothetical evolutionary event in which very many identical copies of a short section of DNA are added to a genome.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > replication > saltatory replication
saltatory replication1968
1968 R. J. Britten in Carnegie Inst. Year Bk. 1966–7 72/2 Saltatory replications, the hypothetical events by which families of hundreds of thousands of similar nucleotide sequences are produced in the DNA of an organism... Families are produced in a time short compared to the time required for their loss by divergence (a few hundred million years).
1968 R. J. Britten & Kohne in Carnegie Inst. Year Bk. 1966–7 84/1 Events in which very many copies [of a DNA segment] are made in a short time interval (saltatory replication). Evidence is now available which clearly indicates saltatory replication.
1968 R. J. Britten & Kohne in Carnegie Inst. Year Bk. 1966–7 88/1 A saltatory replication producing 100,000 copies of the right sort of gene is a candidate for a genetic event with immense potentiality.
1970 Nature 12 Dec. 1043/2 Such gene expansion has been designated saltatory replication and is illustrated in Fig. 1 C.
B. n.1
A dancer. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun]
leapera1000
sailour?a1366
tripperc1380
dancerc1440
sallierc1440
hopperc1480
flinger?a1513
foot clapper1620
pranker1628
saltatorya1640
prancer1653
apache dancer1912
hoofer1923
rug-cutter1934
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Fffffff/2 A second, a lavolteteere, a saltatory, a dancer with a Kit at his bum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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