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📶 Small rapid changes 🤲 To shake quickly
jitter

jitter

46 7.5
Small quick changes in an electronic signal that cause problems
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɪtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : jitter
  • The system experienced some jitter, causing slight disruptions in the audio quality during playback.
  • jitter and shimmer
  • percent jitter

Yeah, full resolution, high frame rate, high frame rate, low latency, load jitter.

Examples

  • Engineers monitor jitter in network signals to ensure stable and high-quality data transmission.

  • The TF camera series design has effectively eliminated image jitter through the use of three 1/3-inch progressive-scan CCDs.

    Academic text (2005)

  • You know, it's, you have to try and make sure that if there is any, any drift, any jitter, then it's known.

  • We calculated percent jitter and percent shimmer for each trial using the software.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Percent jitter measures the percent of cycle-to-cycle frequency variation in the voice samples.

    Academic text (2012)

  • While one or more planets seem to appear in this data set, pulsar jitter could be mimicking the effects of planets.

    Academic text (1995)

  • More conventional measurements are done on simpler test stands where noise and/or peak jitter assessments can be made.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Staver said he doesn't get the jitters when his future coaches watch him play.

    Blog text (4)

  • Some newer camcorders have a built-in image stabilizing feature, which is great for avoiding hand-held jitter.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Himbry shakes away his jitters, realizing he's spooked himself.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

fluctuation
vsjitter
76 6.3

A change in level or amount that goes up and down over time

is narrower, focusing on tiny rapid irregular changes in signals or systems
vibration
vsjitter
73 3.2

A quick movement back and forth that makes something shake

emphasizes rapid irregular changes especially in signals rather than regular oscillation
jiggle
vsjitter
7 3.9

A small quick shaking movement that makes things wobble

is about tiny rapid irregular changes often in signals or systems
jerkiness
vsjitter
1 6.7

A series of sudden, rough stops and starts that make movement uneven

is about small rapid irregular changes rather than large abrupt motions

Antonyms

stability
363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

consistency
77 3.2

The state of things or actions being the same and in agreement

How Irregular

instability
114 5.1
jitter
  • Specialized
46 7.5
fluctuation
76 6.3
to drift
30 3.8
stability
363 3.1

Surface Forms

jitter singular
jitters plural

Etymology

Jitter comes from the everyday word jitters, which meant a 'nervous shaking', and it is like the dance name jitterbug that suggests quick, jerky moves. So in signals and devices, jitter means tiny, fast 'shakes' or irregular changes in a signal.