transcurrent

Passing transversely.

Adjective

  1. Passing transversely.
  2. Pertaining to a fault caused by horizontal displacement.
    • 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...

Origin

From (present participle of) Latin transcurrere.

Forms

more transcurrent most transcurrent

Derived

transcurrently