transcurrent
adjUK /tɹanzˈkʌɹənt/
Etymology From (present participle of) Latin transcurrere.
1
Passing transversely.
- Some of these faults may have been the site at which huge blocks slid past one another – transcurrent movement – rather than moving ‘up and down’.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 183:
- Derived terms
- transcurrently