Usually means: Abrupt transition between two scenes.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word jump cut:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. jump-cut, jump cut: Merriam-Webster
  2. jump cut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jump cut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jump cut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jump cut: Vocabulary.com
  6. jump-cut: Wordnik
  7. jump cut: Wiktionary
  8. jump-cut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jump cut: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. jump cut: Dictionary.com
  11. Jump Cut (journal), Jump-cut, Jump cut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. jump cut: Rhymezone
  13. jump cut: FreeDictionary.org
  14. jump cut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. jump cut: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jump cut: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. jump cut: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jump cut)

noun:  (film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.
noun:  (American football) A sudden switch from running forward to running to the side.
verb:  Alternative form of jump-cut. [(ambitransitive, film) To abruptly transition to a later moment of the scene.]

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