Definitions for saltation

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saltation sal·ta·tion

Spelling: [sal-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /sælˈteɪ ʃən/

Saltation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 425 anagrams from letters in saltation (aailnostt).

Definitions for saltation

noun

1. a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
2. an abrupt movement or transition.
3. Geology. intermittent, leaping movement of particles of sand or gravel, as from the force of wind or running water.
4. Biology. a sudden discontinuity in a line of descent. a mutation.

Origin of saltation

1640-50; Latin saltātiōn- (stem of saltātiō) a dancing, equivalent to saltāt(us) (past participle of saltāre; see saltant) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for saltation

In the heat of noon, in the cool of the evening, day after day there was no rest for them, their saltation was without end.

Long tail and long hind foot would seem to be specializations for saltation and the two would be expected to be correlated.

saltation is downwind movement of particles in a series of jumps or skips.

As an adaptation to saltation the tibia would elongate at the expense of the femur and the index would be more than 100.

Life must be taken with a grain of saltation: let the spirit dance a measure or two ere it collapse.

A saltating grain may hit other grains that jump up to continue the saltation.

Sand sheets are flat, gently undulating sandy plots of sand surfaced by grains that may be too large for saltation.

Particles are transported by winds through suspension, saltation, and creep.