jitter.
A nervous action; a tic.
Meaning & usage
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
That creepy movie gave me the jitters.
An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
Where this word comes from
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.
To be nervous.
To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.
Where this word comes from
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.
A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
Where this word comes from
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.
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