transcurrentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /tɹanzˈkʌɹənt/

形容詞

transcurrent (comparative more transcurrent, superlative most transcurrent)

1. Passing transversely.
2. (geology) Pertaining to a fault caused by horizontal displacement.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 183:

     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’.