单词 | transiliency |
释义 | transiliencyn. 1. A leaping from one thing to another; = transilience n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] leapc1000 lope14.. revolution?a1439 reverse?1492 metamorphosis1548 transformation1581 earthquake1592 upside down1593 metamorphose1608 sea-changea1616 peritropea1656 transilience1657 transiliency1661 saltus1665 catastrophe1696 peristrophe1716 transiliency1769 upheaving1821 upset1822 saltation1844 shake1847 upheaval1850 cataclysm1861 shake-out1939 virage1989 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 114 By an unadvised transiliency leaping from the effect to its remotest cause. 2001 N. W. Gillham Life of Sir Francis Galton xx. 292 A transiliency is a saltatory change, a jump or a leap, from one state to another, one race to a new race, one species to a new species. 2. The quality of being transilient; the quality of leaping from one thing to another. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] leapc1000 lope14.. revolution?a1439 reverse?1492 metamorphosis1548 transformation1581 earthquake1592 upside down1593 metamorphose1608 sea-changea1616 peritropea1656 transilience1657 transiliency1661 saltus1665 catastrophe1696 peristrophe1716 transiliency1769 upheaving1821 upset1822 saltation1844 shake1847 upheaval1850 cataclysm1861 shake-out1939 virage1989 1769 D'Alenzon tr. ‘Hoamchi-Vam’ Bonze I. 141 A variety of transanimations from that wonderous transiliency of spirit towards matter. 1851 Reynolds's Misc. 5 July 377/3 The transiliency of his thoughts flying lightly from one thing to another. 1913 T. D. J. Farmer Shrines Old & New 7 A lack of continuity may be detected in places in the larger poem, and..it may be condemned by the exacting reader on the ground of transiliency. 2002 Managing Service Quality 12 360/2 The transiliency in science and technology, and most especially in communications, has compelled organisations to think about new ‘resources’ in the pursuit of innovation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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