jumper
jump shot | (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump |
jump
jumping | the act of jumping, propelling yourself off the ground, he advanced in a series of jumps, the jumping was unexpected |
| jump ball | (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed, an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate |
| jump parachuting | descent with a parachute, he had done a lot of parachuting in the army |
broad jump
long jump | the act of jumping as far as possible from a running start |
| high jump | the act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar |
| jump rope | a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope |
startle
jump start | a sudden involuntary movement, he awoke with a start |
| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
jumpstart
jump-start | starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car, my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
| high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
jump rope
skip rope
skipping rope | a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it |
| jump seat | a folding seat in an automobile |
| jump suit | one-piece uniform worn by parachutists |
| jump suit jumpsuit | one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform |
projectile
missile | a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled |
| rocket projectile | any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine |
| ski jump | a steep downward ramp from which skiers jump |
| water jump | a pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contest |
wide-angle lens
fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
| camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
slant
angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
| jump | (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another |
| jump cut | an immediate transition from one scene to another |
| bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
leap
jump
saltation | an abrupt transition, a successful leap from college to the major leagues |
quantum leap
quantum jump | a sudden large increase or advance, this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer |
| quantum jump | (physics) an abrupt transition of an electron or atom or molecule from one quantum state to another with the emission or absorption of a quantum |
| jump leap | a sudden and decisive increase, a jump in attendance |
| high jump | a competition that involves jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar |
long jump
broad jump | a competition that involves jumping as far as possible from a running start |
pole vault
pole vaulting
pole jump
pole jumping | a competition that involves jumping over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole |
triple jump
hop-step-and-jump | an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
bird's-foot violet
pansy violet
Johnny-jump-up wood violet Viola pedata | common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies |
wild pansy
Johnny-jump-up heartsease love-in-idleness
pink of my John
Viola tricolor | a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived |
| straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
| helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
| angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle
HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
| plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
| spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
| solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
| inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle
reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
| salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle
internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle
external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |