saltation

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(geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface

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(genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species

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an abrupt transition

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a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

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(101) New technologists sometimes call this process by which civilizations emerge "saltation." Civilizations grow by leaps and bounds and that is also how they fall apart.
To illustrate the concept of saltation, during the six-year diffusion of email and the World Wide Web, society transformed qualitatively differently than by "eight-fold," which is the multiplier of our hypothetical inflationary drivers over a six-year period (three doublings over the course of six years or 2 X 2 X 2 = 8).
Doubling the hypothetical velocity of information flowing through a system can cause a phase shift, and a saltation in a civilization.
Systems of evidence in the age of complexity
After full dispersion is achieved, bidirectional saltations of pigment granules continue within the apical projections.
Actin-dependent pigment granule transport in retinal pigment epithelial cells
To speak more generally, we could say that Adamson's is a poetry that regards itself and the world linguistically, seeking a line of feeling along the flow of syntax, but a syntax of saltations and unexpected turns, creating a grammar of the inner life of the poet.
Waving to Hart Crane
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