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superjump (plural superjumps)

1. (mathematics) The jump operator for type two functionals.
2. (linguistics) A hypothetical phonological change in which a phoneme shifts to another realization, skipping over an intermediate phonetic value that is left unchanged.
   • 1999, David L. Cooper, Linguistic Attractors: The Cognitive Dynamics of Language, →ISBN, page 101:

     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.
   • 1974, Alex Ben Block, The Legend of Bruce Lee‎, Mayflower, →ISBN, page 163:

     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.

   • 2010, Denis Montgomery, The Reflected Face of Africa, →ISBN, page 199:

     Civilised man whether in London, Johannesburg or Nairobi is wrestling with our cultural superjump causing many unsolved urban social problems, but the rural peasant peoples of Africa I was travelling among had not yet acquired those problems.

   • 2021 January 27, tinytom08, Leilanee, “Does superjump go higher if you look up?”, in reddit.com‎:

     No, superjump is about the timing in her dip.