(informal, military) A jet airplane with fixed wings that is capable of vertical takeoff and landing as well as hovering, and, in some cases, also capable of becoming airborne in a conventional manner by gaining airspeed on a runaway.

(computing theory) A kind of sorted linked list with additional pointers to connect data items that are various distances apart.

plural of jump shot

(video games) A move in which a character jumps into a wall or similar barrier and executes a further jump by pushing away from it in the opposite direction.

plural of jump drive

A type of combat boot used by paratroopers assigned to parachute units, designed to be fully laced and to give extra support to the ankle.

plural of jump boot

(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.

(computing theory) In computability theory, an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property that X′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X.

(computing) A USB flash drive. / (science fiction) A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.