1. Leaps or jumps across something or from one thing to another one: Lloyd and June saw an unusual number of transiliencies of frogs in the pond as they were bouncing back and forth among the big leaves of water lilies and other floating aquatic plants.
2. Etymology: from Latin transiliens, the past participle transilire, "to leap across" or "to jump over"; from trans-, "across, over" + salire "to leap".