An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly
jumpstart: start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car's battery
To transfer control of the computer to an instruction that is not necessarily the next in sequence; the jump may be unconditional (e g to enter a subroutine) or conditional upon the result of a test, and conditional jumps appear as branching on a flowchart The word branch is sometimes used as an alternative
If you jump, you bend your knees, push against the ground with your feet, and move quickly upwards into the air. I jumped over the fence I'd jumped seventeen feet six in the long jump, which was a school record Whoever heard of a basketball player who doesn't need to jump? Jump is also a noun. She was taking tiny jumps in her excitement
If you jump something such as a fence, you move quickly up and through the air over or across it. He jumped the first fence beautifully