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Webster 1913 Edition
Jumper
1.
A loose upper garment
; as:
(a)
A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
(b)
A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.
Webster 1828 Edition
Jumper
JUMP'ER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
jumper
jumper
English
Noun
jumper (plural jumpers)
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury
- Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
- 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
- A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- 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.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. F. Cooper to this entry?)
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
- (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- 1987 September 14, Gene Bylinskey, “Invasion of the service robots”, in Fortune:
- 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.
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Derived terms
Translations
someone or something that jumps
short length of electrical conductor
removable connecting pin (electronics)
Verb
jumper (third-person singular simple present jumpers, present participle jumpering, simple past and past participle jumpered)
- To connect with an electrical jumper.
Etymology 2
From the term jump (“short coat”) in sailors' jargon, probably from Scots English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Old French, from Arabic جوبَّة; see also jibba.
Noun
jumper (plural jumpers)
- (chiefly Britain, Australia) A woolen sweater or pullover.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
- (usually as jumpers) Rompers.
Translations
woolen sweater or pullover
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