jitter
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdʒɪt.ə(ɹ)/
Noun

jitter (plural jitters)

  1. A nervous action; a tic.
  2. (chiefly, in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
    That creepy movie gave me the jitters.
    • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
      It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
  3. (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
  4. (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
Related terms Translations
  • French: tic nerveux
  • Portuguese: tique nervoso
  • Spanish: tic nervioso
Translations
  • French: gigue
  • Portuguese: jitter
  • Russian: дрожание
Verb

jitter (jitters, present participle jittering; past and past participle jittered)

  1. (intransitive) To be nervous.
  2. (data visualization) To randomly position of data points to avoid visual overlap.
Synonyms Noun

jitter (plural jitters)

  1. (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.



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