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: sal-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

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.