Definitions

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  • adjective (Electronics) having a jumper{2} connecting two contacts in (a circuit).

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  • adjective electronics Fitted with a jumper.

Etymologies

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jumper +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Her summons was promptly answered by a slim figured girl, with fair hair, and "jumpered" in the latest style.

    The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • After these, I'd defy even those black polo-neck jumpered types who put down "Apple" as their religion on the census form not to take a long, sober look at themselves – and the little black thing they're never without – and reconsider.

    The Hard Sell: iPhone 2011

  • The pie was only seasoned with salt and pepper, so there was no need for Simon to make a prolonged trip to his own market garden to have a long awkward conversation with a group of bobbly jumpered, knit-your-own-windchime allotment sorts in exchange for fresh parsley.

    The Good Cook: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • I would like to see a definitive origin movie for the stripy jumpered slasher

    Actor Auditions for Freddy Krueger Feature with Nightmare on Elm Street Faux Trailer Fan Film | Fan Cinema Today 2009

  • Ah, Bill's OK - he's a Mac user and fan - his only problem is that Apple's ads in the UK make Mac users look like woolly-jumpered morons with paste for brains.

    BBC's Bill Thompson calls me a liar 2007

  • I've also jumpered the power interlock so the thing will run with the cover off.

    February 15th, 2004 2004

  • Westchester, and Debrett, driving up from the station in the evening with Mr. Hawtry, found it difficult to accept the freckled, barelegged, blue-jumpered form which he saw in the garden, polishing the spokes of a bicycle, as the ward who had lived all these months in his memory: a fragile little figure in funeral black.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • I cut one trace and jumpered the extra inverter out of the string of inverters.

    Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

  • I cut one trace and jumpered the extra inverter out of the string of inverters.

    Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

  • Note that to clear the CMOS, you simply jumper the poles of the header, with its normal operating mode being left un-jumpered.

    [H]ardOCP News/Article Feed 2010

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