The tiny northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) can "skitter" across the surface of a pond with a series of short rapid jumps.

Mr. Shults said a "relatively rapid" jump in smuggling occurred over the past two to three weeks.

Ayla's sling brought down a great jerboa emerging from its subterranean nest in rapid bipedal jumps.

The apparently tumbling movements are composed of a series of very rapid separate jumps (each jump of a duration of approximately 80 ms).

Those rapid jumps in prices allowed many companies to post sharp run-ups in profits.

Forestalling Collapse Some economists predict that the Soviet Union could still make a rapid jump to capitalism.

Widespread expectations for an appreciating dollar could spur speculative buying and cause a rapid jump.

'I know Thomas's legal status is important to you and it is to me,' she said, in a rapid jump of track.

There is a corresponding process at constant temperature in which the final pressure is the same but is reached by a rapid jump.

Greenland ice cores demonstrate that instability in past eras has been associated with rapid jumps in climate.