Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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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Examples
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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
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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.
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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.
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I would like to see a definitive origin movie for the stripy jumpered slasher
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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.
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I've also jumpered the power interlock so the thing will run with the cover off.
February 15th, 2004 2004
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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
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I cut one trace and jumpered the extra inverter out of the string of inverters.
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I cut one trace and jumpered the extra inverter out of the string of inverters.
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Note that to clear the CMOS, you simply jumper the poles of the header, with its normal operating mode being left un-jumpered.
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