different between leapfrogging vs jumping

English

Alternative forms

• leap-frogging

Noun

leapfrogging (countable and uncountable, plural leapfroggings)

1. The act of one who leapfrogs.
2. (economics, business) The idea that small and incremental innovations lead the dominant firm to stay ahead, whereas radical innovations will permit new firms to "leapfrog" the dominant one.
   • 2013, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Justin Yifu Lin (ed.), The Industrial Policy Revolution, Springer (?ISBN)

     The final stage the is leapfrogging, in which latecomers do not aim to imitate the existing products or plants, but explore ways to develop emerging products in short cycle technologies. A Korean example is digital TV development, which can be regarded as the decisive and final watershed that enabled Korea to begin taking over Japan in the TV business. An example from China would be its recent move toward electric-engined cars […]

   • 2015, Levi Tillemann, The Great Race, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 18:

     Part of the allure of leapfrogging was the difficulty of simply catching up. The complexity of today's auto industry should not be underestimated.

Verb

leapfrogging

1. present participle of leapfrog.

Further reading

• leapfrogging on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??mp??/

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
   • 1998, Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?

     When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)

     And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

Verb

jumping

1. present participle of jump

Noun

jumping (plural jumpings)

1. The act of performing a jump.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)

     When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

Further reading

• jumping on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

French

Etymology

from English jumping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?œ?.pi?/

Noun

jumping m (plural jumpings)

1. show jumping (equestrian discipline)
2. (sports and physical fitness) A form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air.

Further reading

• “jumping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).