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Jump Force
Jump Force is a 3v3 crossover arena fighting game by Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco, released February 15, 2019 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One to celebrate Weekly Shonen Jump's 50th anniversary, with about 40 playable manga characters; it was delisted digitally in February 2022.
Jump In!
Jump In! is a 2007 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Paul Hoen, starring Corbin Bleu as Brooklyn boxer Izzy Daniels who joins Keke Palmer's Double Dutch team; its premiere drew a then-record 8.2 million viewers.
Jump Jim Crow
Jump Jim Crow is a blackface song and dance first performed by white actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice around 1830, whose Jim Crow character gave segregation laws their name.
Jump operator
The jump operator (Turing jump) maps a set of natural numbers to its jump, the halting problem for machines with an oracle for that set, always strictly harder.
Jump Out
Jump Out is the third album by American rapper OsamaSon (Amari Middleton), released January 24, 2025 on Motion Music/Atlantic. Executive-produced by ok, it leaked repeatedly, hit the Billboard 200, and scored 8.2 with Best New Music from Pitchfork.
Jump resonance
Jump resonance is a nonlinear vibration phenomenon in which a driven oscillator's amplitude jumps abruptly at a critical frequency, producing hysteresis between upward and downward frequency sweeps.
Jump scare
Jump scare: a sudden frightening audiovisual event (stinger) in horror film and games that triggers the startle reflex; first used in Cat People (1942), the "Lewton Bus"; peaked in 1981, declining since 2014.
Jump search
Jump search, also called block search, is a searching algorithm for sorted arrays that jumps ahead in fixed-size blocks and then linearly scans the block that could hold the target.
Jump server
A jump server, also called a jump host or jump box, is a hardened computer administrators connect to first to reach machines in a more sensitive network zone.
Jump shot (basketball)
Jump shot (basketball): shooting technique releasing the ball near the top of a vertical jump, distinct from the set shot; key mechanics include the dip, entry angle, and adaptations to defender height and shooting distance.
Jump Trading
Jump Trading, formerly Akamai Trading LLC, is a secretive Chicago-based proprietary trading firm founded in 1999 by former CME pit traders Paul Gurinas and Bill DiSomma.
JumpCloud Inc.
JumpCloud Inc. is a privately held software company in Louisville, Colorado, founded in 2012, selling a cloud directory platform for identity, access, and device management.
Jumper (2008 film)
Jumper (2008) is a Doug Liman sci-fi action film starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, and Jamie Bell, loosely adapted from Steven Gould's 1992 novel; it earned about $225 million worldwide but scored 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jumpers
Jumpers is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard that mixes a murder mystery, farce, and philosophy, first performed at London's Old Vic with Diana Rigg and Michael Hordern.
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash: 1968 Rolling Stones single written by Jagger and Richards, recorded at Olympic Studios with Jimmy Miller, inspired by gardener Jack Dyer, a UK number one and the band's most-played song live.
Jumpin' Jack Flash (film)
Jumpin' Jack Flash is a 1986 American spy comedy, Penny Marshall's directorial debut, starring Whoopi Goldberg as bank computer operator Terry Doolittle who helps a trapped British agent (Jonathan Pryce) evade the KGB; released by 20th Century Fox October 10, 1986.
Jumping Beans
Jumping Beans: a 2001 two-player abstract strategy board game by Chris Huntoon on a 7x7 board with mandatory leaping captures; also the name of a 1976 German mancala game (Sahara) and patented racing games using live Mexican jumping beans.
Jumping Jacks
Jumping Jacks (1952) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by Norman Taurog, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as paratroopers staging a camp show at Fort Benning; notable for its Army cooperation and HUAC writer controversy.
Jumping spider
Jumping spiders (Salticidae), the largest spider family with about 6,985 species, are vision-guided stalking predators with acute layered-retina eyes, defocus-based depth perception, and documented detour-planning cognition in the genus Portia.
Jumping spider behavior and hunting
Jumping spiders are cursorial predators that stalk prey and capture it with a leap instead of webs, using hydraulic leg extension, draglines, and flexible, prey-specific hunting tactics.
Jumping spider vision
Jumping spider vision is the visual system of the Salticidae, built on eight eyes: two movable principal eyes for sharp inspection and six fixed secondary eyes for motion detection.
Jumping spiders of Australia and Oceania
The jumping spiders of Australia and Oceania form a highly endemic fauna of 514 described Australian species in 91 genera, including tiny peacock spiders whose males raise colorful fans in courtship.
Jumping the broom
Jumping the broom is a wedding ritual in which a couple jumps over a broom, used by enslaved African Americans denied legal marriage, with documented British Isles origins, revived after Roots (1976) and Harriette Cole's 1993 planner.
Jumping the Broom
Jumping the Broom is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Salim Akil, starring Paula Patton and Laz Alonso as a couple whose families clash at a Martha's Vineyard wedding.
Jumping the shark
Jumping the shark is an idiom for the moment a TV show or franchise irreversibly declines, from Fonzie's September 20, 1977 Happy Days waterski stunt; coined 1985 by Sean Connolly, popularized by Jon Hein's jumptheshark.com (1997).
Jumpman (logo)
Jumpman is Nike's trademarked silhouette of Michael Jordan mid-leap, drawn by Peter Moore from a 1984 Life photo by Jacobus Rentmeester; first on the Air Jordan III (1987), upheld against Rentmeester's copyright suit by the Ninth Circuit in 2018.
JumpStart
JumpStart is Knowledge Adventure's educational game series launched in 1994, offering grade-based titles from preschool onward, later the 3D virtual world MMO (2007-2009), distinguishing it from other edutainment brands.
Jumpsuit
A jumpsuit is a one-piece garment combining a top and trousers, originating in Italy in 1919 as protective wear for skydivers and later moving between workwear and high fashion.
Jun gongfu (corvée labor service)
Jun gongfu (均工夫) was a land-based corvée levy of the early Ming dynasty, requiring one laborer per qing of land to serve thirty days yearly at the capital.
Jun Hong Noh
Jun Hong Noh (노준홍) is a South Korean materials scientist at Korea University who works on perovskite solar cells, after years as a senior researcher at KRICT.