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"Скорость", "ускорениe", "рывок" - what's next?

As we all know, acceleration is a derivative of velocity, and if we want to introduce how fast acceleration is changing itself, thus, introducing second derivative of velocity - this is called actually a jerk (or jolt). In Russian it is called "рывок", so, we can say that "ускорение ускорения называется рывком".

We can go further and introduce third, fourth and so on derivatives of velocity, every next one is more exotic beast and used noticeably rare in calculations. However, they do exist, and, according to Wikipedia, they are called "jounce", "flounce" and "pounce".

My question would be - is there well established and commonly acknowledge by scientific community terms for third, fourth and fifth derivations of velocity?

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