English to English
noun
- a flexible board for jumping upward
source: WordNet 3.0
- a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
He uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own.
Reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions.
The point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out.
source: WordNet 3.0
- An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
source: Webster 1913
