noun
Meaning 1
A nervous action; a tic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
jitter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)/
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General-American: /ˈd͡ʒɪtɚ/
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General-American: [ˈd͡ʒɪɾɚ]
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rhymes with -ɪtə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
A state of nervousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
Examples
- That creepy movie gave me the jitters.
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noun
Meaning 3
An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
Meaning 4
A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: data visualization
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noun
Meaning 5
A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 6
To be nervous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: data visualization
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noun
Meaning 8
a small irregular movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: movement, motion
noun
Meaning 9
small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: noise, interference, disturbance
History
Etymology
Possibly alteration of chitter (“to tremble, shiver”), from Middle English chittern (“to twitter, chatter”). Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
Etymology tree English jit Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English jitter From jit + -er.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: треперене (treperene) — nervous action; a tic
- Bulgarian: тик (tik) — nervous action; a tic
- Czech: třas — nervous action; a tic
- Czech: třes — nervous action; a tic
- Czech: chvění — nervous action; a tic
- Finnish: nykiminen — nervous action; a tic
- French: tic nerveux — nervous action; a tic
- Georgian: ნერვული აღგზნება (nervuli aɣgzneba) — nervous action; a tic
- Georgian: ნერვული შეტოკება (nervuli šeṭoḳeba) — nervous action; a tic
- German: Zittern — nervous action; a tic
- Portuguese: tique nervoso — nervous action; a tic
- Spanish: tic nervioso — nervous action; a tic
- Bulgarian: нервност (nervnost) — state of nervousness; the jitters
- Finnish: jännitys — state of nervousness; the jitters
- Georgian: ნერვიულობა (nerviuloba) — state of nervousness; the jitters
- German: Nervosität — state of nervousness; the jitters
- German: Aufgeregtheit — state of nervousness; the jitters
- Spanish: tembleque — state of nervousness; the jitters
- Dutch: interferentie — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Finnish: värinä — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Finnish: huojunta — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Finnish: jitter — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- French: gigue — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Portuguese: jitter — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Russian: дрожание (drožanije) — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Russian: джиттер (džitter) — telecommunications: abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
- Finnish: täristys — data visualisation
- Finnish: täristäminen — data visualisation
- German: bibbern — To be nervous
- German: zittern — To be nervous
- Finnish: täristää — data visualisation