shimmer
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʃɪmə(ɹ)/
shimmer (shimmers, present participle shimmering; past and past participle shimmered)
- (intransitive) To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly.
- Synonyms: twinkle, sparkle, glisten, glimmer
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, (
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- the shimmering glimpses of a stream
- French: chatoyer
- German: schimmern
- Italian: luccicare, rilucere
- Russian: мерца́ть
- Spanish: titilar, cabrillear
shimmer (plural shimmers)
- A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
- Synonyms: glimmer
- (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
- cot en
- 2010, Daniel R. Boone, The Voice and Voice Therapy, Pearson College Division (ISBN 9780205609536)
- As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
- French: chatoyement, chatoiement
- German: Schimmer, Schimmern
- Italian: luccichio
- Russian: мерца́ние
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