trampoline

Meanings

Noun

• A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
• A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline.
• Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages

Verb

• To jump as if on a trampoline.
• To rewrite (computer code) to use the looping or jumping instructions called trampolines.

Origin

• From and/or ; in English, a genericized trademark based on the Spanish word trademarked in 1936.