The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. • An effort; an attempt; a venture. • A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. • An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. • An instance of propelling oneself upwards. • An object which causes one to jump; a ramp. • An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. • An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. • An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. • A jumping move in a board game. • A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards). • An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. • An early start or an advantage. • A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity. • An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence. • Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike • An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space. • A change of the path of execution to a different location. • Ellipsis of jump-start. • Clipping of jump cut. • Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).