skipping

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noun

The act by which something is skipped or omitted.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of skip
nounskipping (plural skippings)

plural skippings

  1. The act by which something is skipped or omitted.

    Suppose we permit irregular skippings and connect, for example, 1 with 3 with 6 with 2 with 4 – but now we cannot skip any more because the only missing point is the adjacent point 5.

    2008, Manfred Schroeder, Number Theory in Science and Communication, page 143
  2. The game, activity, or exercise of jump rope.

Synonyms & antonyms

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