trampoline

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæmpəˈliːn/, /ˈtɹæmpəˌliːn/

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trampoline (plural trampolines)

1. A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric or rubber stretched over a (usually steel) frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
2. (uncountable) A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline.

   Synonym: trampolining

3. (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.
4. (programming) Any of a variety of indirection techniques in specific programming languages.

trampoline (third-person singular simple present trampolines, present participle trampolining, simple past and past participle trampolined)

1. (intransitive) To jump as if on a trampoline.
   • 2007, Zoe Sharp, First Drop‎, →ISBN, page 276:

     My heart trampolined into my throat as I watched Lonnie's grip tighten on the stock of his own shotgun […]

2. (transitive, programming) To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions.

   trampolined code

• trampoliner
• trampolinist

• Trampoline (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trampolining on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

• trampolin (obsolete)
• tremplin (obsolete)

Borrowed from either Italian trampolino or Spanish trampolín (itself from Italian).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtrɑm.poːˈli.nə/

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• Hyphenation: tram‧po‧li‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. A trampoline.

• springplank

Borrowed from Spanish trampolín or Italian trampolino. See also French tremplin.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.pɔ.lin/

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. (gymnastics) trampoline
2. (programming) trampoline

• tremplin

• “trampoline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Italian trampolino.

trampoline m (definite singular trampolinen, indefinite plural trampoliner, definite plural trampolinene)

1. a trampoline

• “trampoline” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian trampolino.

trampoline m (definite singular trampolinen, indefinite plural trampolinar, definite plural trampolinane)

1. a trampoline

• “trampoline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.