sudden jump

collocation in English

meaningsofsuddenandjump

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sudden
adjective
uk
/ˈsʌd.ən/us
/ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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jump
noun[C]
uk
/dʒʌmp/us
/dʒʌmp/
a sudden movement off the ground and into ...
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(Definition ofsuddenandjumpfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, by keeping the velocity of the swing limb tip zero before the impact, thesuddenjumpin the joint angular velocities can be eliminated.
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We need an increase in liquidity, but not asuddenjumplike this.
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However, there was asuddenjump, and the increase was maintained.
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Asuddenjumpinto the dark would have unfortunate repercussions.
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The present £34 weekly earnings limit should not be the start of asuddenjumpin costs.
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It would be the starting figure, asuddenjumpfrom nought to something.
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It is not asuddenjump, or a sudden interest.
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Some of them will make asuddenjumpby the mere fact of becoming part of this borough, from paying a duty of £5 to paying a duty of £30.
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It is not the principle of this matter which disturbs me but the big andsuddenjumpfrom the present system to an almost totally departmentalised system.
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Asuddenjumpoccurs in the case of a speedway where the bicycle has a motor, and we are told that this sport is the same as motor car racing.
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I have an open mind on whether the charge should be one shilling for an hour, and a shilling for another hour, and then asuddenjumpto half-a-crown.
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Because of the all or none principle, there is no smooth increase in action potential amplitude, but rather there is asuddenjumpin amplitude.
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In the case of ferroresonance it is characterised by asuddenjumpof voltage or current from one stable operating state to another one.
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Intuitively we can think of this type of discontinuity as asuddenjumpin function values.
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Following a couple of decades of small, incremental performance gains, the appearance in 2000 of the "eta" brought asuddenjumpin performance and a further price escalation.
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So the process of price increases in the last decade has been characterised by a series of fits and starts—sudden jumps followed by periods of relative stability.
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Such systems generally exhibit sudden jumps from one equilibrium state to another (sometimes amenable to analysis using catastrophe theory).
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