Saltation Definition

săl-tāshən, sôl-
noun
A leaping, jumping, or dancing.
Webster's New World
Sudden change, movement, or development, as if by leaping.
Webster's New World
A single mutation that drastically alters the phenotype.
American Heritage
A sudden, major inherited change in an organism, usually caused by a mutation.
Webster's New World

Beating or palpitation.

The saltation of the great artery.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Saltation

Noun

Singular:
saltation
Plural:
saltations

Origin of Saltation

  • Latin saltātiō saltātiōn from saltātus past participle of saltāre to leap frequentative of salīre to jump salient

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin saltus (“to leap").

    From Wiktionary

Saltation Sentence Examples

  • Waagen's law of mutation, or the appearance of new parts or organs so gradually that they can be perceived only by following them through successive geologic time stages, appears to be directly contradictory to the saltation principle; it is certainly one of the most firmly established principles of palaeontology, and it constitutes the contribution par excellence of this branch of zoology to the law of evolution, since it is obvious that it could not possibly have been deduced from comparison of living animals but only through the long perspective gained by comparison of animals succeeding each other in time.

  • Phyletic gaps began to be filled in this general way, however, by discovery, especially through remarkable 1 The Dutch botanist, De Vries, has employed the term in another sense, to mean a slight jump or saltation.

  • Saltation The genesis of powder snow avalanches is also thought to sometimes arise from a saltation layer on the surface of a dense avalanche.

  • Saltation cannot be initiated within the vegetation, because of the zero wind velocity at the surface.

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