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jumplike

jumplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a jump.

Adjective

jumplike (comparative more jumplike, superlative most jumplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a jump.
    • Comparison of the curves suggests that the usual smooth-looking creep curves, if scaled up on the deformation axis, may display a jumplike structure […]1980, R W Fast, A F Clark, R P Reed, Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Volume 26

Forms of jumplike

comparativemore jumplike
superlativemost jumplike

Origin of jumplike

From jump + -like.

Questions about jumplike

What does jumplike mean?
Jumplike means resembling or characteristic of a jump.
What part of speech is jumplike?
Jumplike is an adjective.

Words near jumplike in the dictionary

  1. jumping-sheet
  2. jumping-sheets
  3. jumpingly
  4. jumpings
  5. jumpity
  6. jumplike
  7. jumplist
  8. jumplists
  9. jumpmaster
  10. jumpmasters
  11. jumpoff

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