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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Leaping or extending across, as from one base of support to another.

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  • adjective jumping across, or passing over something
  • adjective medicine of the cortical association fibres that pass between nonadjacent convolutions of the brain

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  • Passing abruptly from one state to another.

    May 16, 2008