Jumper

/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/ · noun

Meaning

Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
2. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
4. (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
5. (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
6. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
7. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
8. (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.

Example Sentences

Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.

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For coupling between the cars of a three-car set 19 core jumpers are provided for control and auxiliary train cables, a positive bus line, and an auxiliary power jumper for heating circuits.

a jumper was found prepared to receive Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego

[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.

In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure.

This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.

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• jumpers
• jumpering
• jumpered

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