transcurrence

Noun

transcurrence (uncountable)

1. A roving here and there; movement.
   • This condition results probably quite as much from the constant rubbing and picking of the nose, as from the simple transcurrence of the morbid nasal secretions to which most authors exclusively attribute it .1858, Sir Willoughby Francis Wade, Observations on Diphtheritis, page 21
   • When boys or bees are out of school or hive, The street or garden then is all alive. In play or work the busy are the best, Come what transcurrence, they are most blest.1888, W. H. Bakewell, Vision of Faith in the Dream of Time, page 63
2. Appearance or occurrence throughout something.
   • Among features, which are more easily determined, the following chiefly come into consideration for the purposes of anatomical diagnosis: the embedded character or vertical transcurrence of the medium-sized and smaller veins; the presence or absence of a strongly developed mass of mechanical tissue...1908, Hans Solereder, Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons, page 1089
   • Within the horizon of temporal transcurrence, Ellacuria can pursue the issue of the universality and relativity of time that will prove critical to his conception of history.2000, Kevin F. Burke, The Ground Beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacuría, page 65
3. A displacement along a fault or shear zone characterized by lateral or horizontal movement of formations relative to each other, usually in a direction parallel to the fault plane.
   • Brittle faults, joints, and dykes which cut the massif are probably related with an Upper Cretaceous NE-SW extension and a Paleogene, probably Eocene E-W transcurrence with NW-SE extension and NE-SW compression.1995, Revista Brasileira de Geociências, page 79
   • The entity of the transcurrence phenomenon has led the author to postulate that the post - orogenic collapse of the marginal basins is accompanied by tectonic rotation and great torsions which have disrupted the Pacific perimeter .2013, Forese-Carlo Wezel, “The Pacific Island Arcs: Produced by Post-Orogenic Vertical Tectonics?”, in F.-C. Wezel, editor, The Origin of Arcs, page 529