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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as transiliency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A leap across or from one thing to another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun something transilient
  • noun a leap across something, or from one thing to another

Etymologies

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Latin transiliens, present participle of transilire to leap across or over.

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