jumbo
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).
Inflected forms:
form: jumbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Especially large or powerful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a jumbo helping
At Bucyrus, Ohio, M. C. Coulter this season has demonstrated that he can grow a nice crop of the jumbo variety of peanuts.
Of the receipts of unshelled peanuts only a few extras are now being bought, the remainder being divided rather equally between jumbo and fancy grades.
Not only did Jumbo-mania make [Phineas Taylor] Barnum a jumbo profit, but the word "jumbo" entered the English language.
As the number of judges on an appellate court increases, the court evolves into what I call a "jumbo court." First, the dynamics of a jumbo court are such that, as the court grows larger, the productivity of individual judges on the court declines.
As the name suggests, jumbo frames are frames with a larger size compared to the standard MTU [maximum transmission unit]. Sending data in jumbo frames means there are fewer frames sent through the network, resulting in fewer IRQs [interrupt requests] at the receiving end. This obviously generates big improvements in terms of bandwidth and CPU [central processing unit] cycles.
gloss: An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I purchased a vine, and was rather impressed with the appearance of the grape; so I took the time to go down to see the vine, the Jumbo [a cultivar of muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia], and I saw a very large vine, trained on an arbor, perhaps covering a space of fifteen to twenty feet square, with the clusters hanging down through the lattice work;[…]
It is important to realise that slabbing may occur at any stage of the processing of a jumbo [large roll of paper from which smaller rolls are cut]. Typically slabbing becomes necessary when the reel being wound up has reached its required length and the jumbo has only a small contiguous length left on the spindle.
gloss: An elephant.
pos: noun
tags: India
Kenya
countable
uncountable
gloss: A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In all three tunnels the full face was drilled at once. […] [T]he mucking machine was immediately converted into a drilling jumbo upon completion of the mucking operation. Both jumbos carried all the posts and bars necessary for the mounting in any desired position of four automatic DA-30 drifters.
The curtailment of drilling because of a disruption of the loading cycle is far less likely with the jumbo than with post and tripod drilling, because from three to five working places are available to the jumbo, whereas only one or, at the most, two faces can be worked by one crew with the old method.
gloss: A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
countable
uncountable
examples: Take a jumbo ’cross the water (Like to see America)
gloss: Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
pos: noun
tags: Pennsylvania
Western
countable
uncountable
gloss: A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the unwind area, one system loads and unloads the unwind stand almost simultaneously. The jumbo is stored ahead of the unwind on level rails.
Related words: Jumbomania
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