jumpstation
jumpstation noun: a web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.
Noun
jumpstation (plural jumpstations)
- A web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.
- Future Fantasy offers a searchable online book catalog and notifies readers of current events at the store and in the field in general. It also provides a jumpstation of hyperlinks to other stores, publishers, online magazines, original fiction, […]1997, Gary Gach, Writers.net: Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities
- If you right-click on a website listed on a jumpstation, you will be given various options including 'open in new window'.2001, Richard Templar, Finding Facts
Forms of jumpstation
| plural | jumpstations |
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Origin of jumpstation
From jump + station, from the name of an early search engine, JumpStation.
Questions about jumpstation
- What does jumpstation mean?
- Jumpstation means a web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.
- What part of speech is jumpstation?
- Jumpstation is a noun.
- What is the plural of jumpstation?
- The plural of jumpstation is jumpstations.
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