bumping
adjective
- that bumps
- sudden, explosive boiling of a liquid being heated in laboratory glassware
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/
adj
- Rocking, excellent, great.
noun
- The sound or action of a bump.
“There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.”
- The violent boiling when a homogeneous liquid is superheated to the point that the bubbles are formed at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and be expelled from the container
- Form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race
“He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of bump