[
UK
/dʒˈɪtɐ/
]
NOUN
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
How To Use jitter In A Sentence
- By switching the anti-aliasing mode on and off, I found different and useful timbres, because even aliasing creates an interesting digital jitter.
- The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
- Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
- Caffeine makes me jittery, so I prefer decaffeinated tea.
- The show opened as a surreal oasis of calm and culture in a tense and jittery city. Times, Sunday Times
- These polls have caused some jitters. Times, Sunday Times
- Although markets were jittery during the day as votes in the key state of Ohio were counted, stocks were buoyed after Mr Kerry conceded defeat.
- My nerves are almost completely balanced by the relief I'm feeling at soon being free of her, but as it is I'm jittering and barely worth talking to.
- Stage 1: thermogenic intensifiers to burn fat, suppress appetite and give intense jitter-free energy.
- There I was sitting in my chair, jittery with adrenaline and close to peeing my pants, fearful of the imposing figure in the center of the room.