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What does saltatory mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word saltatory? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to leaps or leaping.
  2. That proceeds by leaps rather than by smooth, continuous variation.
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A dance is generally a grand affair with the native, combining as it does dress with dramatic and saltatory exhibitions.
He shifts himself from one foot to another with a saltatory briskness.
The word dance does not well designate the ceremonies, as they are in general more histrionic than saltatory.
He believed in saltatory evolution, in polyphyletic descent, and in the greater plasticity of the organism in earlier times.
Glover's dialogue exhibits a saltatory quality that also defines his career.
His intriguing take on evolution proposed that the apparent saltation of the fossil record actually reflected saltatory events.

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