flimmer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From blend of flicker + glimmer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flimmer (plural flimmers)
- A flickering glimmer.[1][2]
- One of the delicate lateral filaments typical of some flagella. (mastigoneme)[1]
Verb
[edit]flimmer (third-person singular simple present flimmers, present participle flimmering, simple past and past participle flimmered)
- (intransitive) To glimmer, flicker.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “flimmer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flimmer n
- flickering
- (in some compounds) fibrillation
Declension
[edit]| Declension of flimmer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | flimmer | flimret | — | — |
| Genitive | flimmers | flimrets | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]- förmaksflimmer (“atrial fibrillation”)
Related terms
[edit]- flimra (“to flicker”)