a. [f. TRANS- + L. călēnt-em, pr. pple. of călēre to be hot, to glow: see CALENT.
Etymologically the pronunciation is tra·nscălent; transcâ·lent comes by false analogy with translū·cent and transpâ·rent (in which the vowel is etymologically long).]
Having the property of freely transmitting radiant heat; pervious to heat-rays; diathermanous.
1834. E. Turner, Elem. Chem. (ed. 4), 107. Rock salt is remarkably diathermanous or transcalent.
1880. Contemp. Rev., March, 373. All bodies, so far at least as the heat of the sun is concerned, are more or less transcalent.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 269. The air rich in water vapour is less transcalent and translucent than in drier regions.
Hence Transcalency, the property of being transcalent; diathermaneity.
1864. in Webster.
