saltus

American  

[sal-tuhs, sawl-] / ˈsæl təs, ˈsɔl- /

noun

Mathematics.

• saltuses
  plural

1. oscillation.

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saltus British  

/ ˈsæltəs /

noun

1. a break in the continuity of a sequence, esp the omission of a necessary step in a logical argument

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• saltuses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of saltus

1655–65; < New Latin, Latin: a leap. See salt ²

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Example Sentences

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saltus

And let us observe that Nature, though forbidden such style of progression by her savans, sometimes does make a local saltus, especially in the change of climates.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I see you are inclined to advocate the possibility of considerable "saltus" on the part of Dame Nature in her variations.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley

Ingens saltus, remarks Bengel, with his customary brevity and graphic power.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

But as to the people about us, the hundredth part of them could not be saved:               "Videas desertaque regna                Pastorum, et longe saltus lateque vacantes."

From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18 by Charles Cotton

It is a derivative, through the French, from the Latin saltus.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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