saltation

Other forms of saltation

plural

saltations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about saltation

What does saltation mean?

saltation means "(geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saltation?

saltation has 4 syllables and divides as sal-ta-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for saltation?

Close synonyms include leap, jump, dancing, dance, terpsichore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saltation a common word?

saltation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.