Jounce

Quick meaning: Jounce is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

More Meanings

1. A movement, such as a jolt or a shake.
2. (physics) The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk.

Example Sentences

The bed jounced when Mannie sat down on it where the medic had been sitting.

When the drive axles have inner and outer joints, rear wheel camber change is minimized during wheel jounce and rebound.

She felt herself swooping, then she was lying on the bed beside Gowan, on her back, jouncing to the dying chatter of the shucks.

So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.

Word Forms

• jounces
• jouncing
• jounced

Synonyms for jounce

Depending on context, synonyms include snap, jolt, bounce, jar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jolt, bounce, jar, jaunt, joggle, jaunce.

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