Thesaurus / saltation
FEEDBACKsynonyms for saltation
synonyms for saltation
- bounce
- bounciness
- bound
- buck
- buoyancy
- elasticity
- flexibility
- give
- hop
- leap
- recoil
- resilience
- springiness
- vault
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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to saltation, such as: bounce, dive, drop, fall, hurdle, and plunge.
How to use saltation in a sentence
As an adaptation to saltation the tibia would elongate at the expense of the femur and the index would be more than 100.
SPECIATION IN THE KANGAROO RAT, DIPODOMYS ORDIIHENRY W. SETZERLong tail and long hind foot would seem to be specializations for saltation and the two would be expected to be correlated.
SPECIATION IN THE KANGAROO RAT, DIPODOMYS ORDIIHENRY W. SETZERLife must be taken with a grain of saltation: let the spirit dance a measure or two ere it collapse.
PIPEFULSCHRISTOPHER MORLEYSaltation is downwind movement of particles in a series of jumps or skips.
DESERTSA. S. WALKERParticles are transported by winds through suspension, saltation, and creep.
DESERTSA. S. WALKERA saltating grain may hit other grains that jump up to continue the saltation.
DESERTSA. S. WALKERThe average length of jumps during saltation corresponds to the wavelength, or distance between adjacent crests, of the ripples.
DESERTSA. S. WALKERSand sheets are flat, gently undulating sandy plots of sand surfaced by grains that may be too large for saltation.
DESERTSA. S. WALKERIn the heat of noon, in the cool of the evening, day after day there was no rest for them, their saltation was without end.
FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS: GERMANANONYMOUSThat moral saltation is very necessary to political success at Leaplow, and quite probably in many other places.
THE MONIKINSJ. FENIMORE COOPERWORDS RELATED TO SALTATION
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