saltation vs jumping

saltation and jumping both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saltation	Yes	No	No	No
jumping	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, jumping is a hypernym of saltation; that is, jumping is a word with a broader meaning than saltation:

Other hypernyms of saltation include jump.

saltation (noun)	jumping (noun)
a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards	the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music	the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
(genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species
an abrupt transition
(geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface