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Webster 1828 Edition


Skipping

SKIP'PING

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ppr.
Leaping; bounding. Skipping notes, in music, are notes that are not in regular course, but separate.

Definition 2024


skipping

skipping

English

Verb

skipping

  1. present participle of skip

Noun

skipping (plural skippings)

  1. The act by which something is skipped or omitted.
    • 2008, Manfred Schroeder, Number Theory in Science and Communication (page 143)
      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.