"jounce" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /d͡ʒaʊn(t)s/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-jounce.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-jounce.wav [General-American] Forms: jounces [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊns Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English *jouncen (“to jolt violently”) (evidenced by jouncinge (“violent jolting movement”)); further etymology unknown, possibly imitative. The noun is probably derived from the verb as it is attested later. Etymology templates: {{lg|verb}} verb, {{inh|en|enm|*jouncen|t=to jolt violently}} Middle English *jouncen (“to jolt violently”), {{lg|imitative}} imitative, {{lg|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-noun}} jounce (plural jounces)
  1. A vigorous up-and-down movement; a jolt, a shake. Synonyms: jouncing
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  2. (physics) The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk. Synonyms: snap Translations (fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time): napse (Finnish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: jouncy, jounce bumper

Verb

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Rhymes: -aʊns Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English *jouncen (“to jolt violently”) (evidenced by jouncinge (“violent jolting movement”)); further etymology unknown, possibly imitative. The noun is probably derived from the verb as it is attested later. Etymology templates: {{lg|verb}} verb, {{inh|en|enm|*jouncen|t=to jolt violently}} Middle English *jouncen (“to jolt violently”), {{lg|imitative}} imitative, {{lg|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-verb}} jounce (third-person singular simple present jounces, present participle jouncing, simple past and past participle jounced)
  1. (transitive) To shake (someone or something) up and down, for example, by driving a vehicle over obstructions or riding a horse roughly; to jolt. Tags: transitive
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  2. (intransitive) To move vigorously up and down; to bounce, to bump, to jolt; also, to fall and hit something heavily. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: jostle Translations (to fall and hit something heavily): rojahtaa (Finnish), tömähtää (Finnish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: jouncing [noun], jouncingly, rejounce [obsolete] Translations ((transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt): друсам (drusam) (Bulgarian), kodrcat se [imperfective] (Czech), strkat se [imperfective] (Czech), ravistaa (Finnish), rütteln (German), schütteln (German), drmati (Serbo-Croatian), drmusati (Serbo-Croatian), підстрибувати (pidstrybuvaty) (Ukrainian), трястися (trjastysja) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of '(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt': 48 52

Inflected forms

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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "roman": "drusam",
      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
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      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
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      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
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      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "ravistaa"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "rütteln"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "schütteln"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
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      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "drmati"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
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      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "drmusati"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "pidstrybuvaty",
      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "підстрибувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "trjastysja",
      "sense": "(transitive) to shake (someone or something) up and down; (intransitive) to move vigorously up and down — see also jolt",
      "word": "трястися"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to fall and hit something heavily",
      "word": "rojahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to fall and hit something heavily",
      "word": "tömähtää"
    }
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  "word": "jounce"
}

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      "word": "jounce bumper"
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          "text": "Take care of the grips, or we shall have some jounces [jolts], and keep the middle of the road over Woolpit warren, for the sides are caved in, […]",
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          "text": "[…] I protest that an open wagon is the very best thing to ride in that ever was invented. If it is hard in the springs, so much the merrier! […] Off we started with a jounce over the barn-door sill, that nearly dislocated my neck, and a violent nodding to my cousin's wife that set it all right again, and an alarming scattering of hens and chickens before us.",
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          "text": "Scruples are like the sand-bags in a balloon. He who throws them all overboard rises with ease, but is likely to come down with a jounce.",
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          "text": "[A] stumbling step took him clean off the edge of the world, and into the air. […] Then, he landed with a jounce in a heap of brush and dead leaves.",
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          "ref": "2007, Don Knowles, “Rear Suspension Systems”, in Classroom Manual for Automotive Suspension & Steering Systems (Today’s Technician), 4th edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Thomson Delmar Learning, →ISBN, page 164:",
          "text": "When the drive axles have inner and outer joints, rear wheel camber change is minimized during wheel jounce and rebound.",
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          "ref": "1974, Arvid Myklebust, “Recommendations and Conclusions”, in Synthesis of Multi-link Mechanisms for Dynamic Specifications: A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate Council of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida, →OCLC, page 180:",
          "text": "The fourth derivative (jounce) may be used to find the tangential and normal loci in the same manner as for the second and third order properties.",
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          "text": "When you are in an elevator that is not working properly, and your stomach feels as if it were left behind on the previous floor, then you are experiencing jerk. […] No term for the rate of change of jerk, the fourth derivative of position, is in widespread usage, although jounce has been suggested.",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "napse"
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