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bumping

adjective

  1. that bumps
  2. sudden, explosive boiling of a liquid being heated in laboratory glassware
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/

adj

  1. Rocking, excellent, great.

noun

  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. 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

  1. present participle and gerund of bump