Superjump
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The jump operator for type two functionals.
- 2 A hypothetical phonological change in which a phoneme shifts to another realization, skipping over an intermediate phonetic value that is left unchanged.
"The paradox with these words arises because, with the exception of this class, all the descendants of aer and er words became /ihr/ and ar class words became /ehr/. The notion of a superjump is not very useful here."
- 3 An extremely large or powerful jump.
"Most television and film executives in America still have little understanding of the real martial arts. Like children fascinated by the phony superjumps of stunt men in Chinese boxing pictures, many executives see only the violence on the surface and are incapable of looking beyond it."
Example
More examples"The paradox with these words arises because, with the exception of this class, all the descendants of aer and er words became /ihr/ and ar class words became /ehr/. The notion of a superjump is not very useful here."
Etymology
From super- + jump.
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