meaning of leap

1. A basket.
2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
3. Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.
4. To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
5. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
6. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
7. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
8. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
9. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
10. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
11. A fault.
12. A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
13. LEAP Language for the Expression of Associative Procedures. ALGOL-based formalism for sets and associative retrieval, for TX-2. Became part of SAIL. "An ALGOL-based Associative Language", J. A. Feldman et al, CACM 128:439-449 Aug 1969. leapfrog attack Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host e. g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc. to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace a standard cracker procedure. [Jargon File] leap second Coordinated Universal Time learning curve A graph showing some measure of the cost of performing some action against the number of times it has been performed. The term probably entered engineering via the aircraft industry in the 1930s, where it was used to describe plots showing the cost of making some particular design of aeroplane against the number of units made. The term is also used in psychology to mean a graph showing some measure of something learned against the number of trials. The psychology graphs normally slope upward whereas the manufacturing ones normally slope downward but they are both usually steep to start with and then level out. Marketroids often misuse the term to mean the amount of time it takes to learn to use something "reduce the learning curve" or the ease of learning it "easy learning curve". The phrase "steep learning curve" is sometimes used incorrectly to mean "hard to learn" whereas of course it implies rapid learning. Engineering http://www. computerworld. com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47-68-85-194 Psychology http://sun. science. wayne. edu/~wpoff/cor/mem/opereinf. html.
14. a light springing movement upwards or forwards

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