jitter
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology 1
Possibly alteration of chitter (“‘tremble, shiver’”), from Middle English chittern (“‘to twitter, chatter’”)
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jitter (plural jitters)
- A nervous action; a tic.
- A state of nervousness (primarily used in the plural - often with 'the'.)
- That creepy movie gave me the jitters.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
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A nervous action; a tic
A state of nervousnes; the jitters
(Telecommunications) an abrubt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics
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[edit] Verb
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to jitter (third-person singular simple present jitters, present participle jittering, simple past and past participle jittered)
- (intransitive) To be nervous.
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jitter (plural jitters)