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Meaning of transcurrent | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

/tɹanzˈkʌɹənt/

Definitions

Passing transversely.
Pertaining to a fault caused by horizontal displacement.

Examples

“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’.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

transcutaneous transcuticular transcystic transcytolemmal transcytoplasmic transcytosed