noun
jitter
small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
In a sentence
Six example sentences with jitter, each labelled with its topic.
A little jitter on the connection makes an opponent skip across the screen instead of moving smoothly toward cover.
Gaming
Cheap clock circuits add jitter to the digital output, and the cymbals lose their edge on good studio headphones.
Music
The oscilloscope showed jitter on the clock line, each edge arriving a few nanoseconds early or late.
Technology
Physicists mount the detector on a damped table because jitter in the pulse timing would blur the measurement they need.
Science
Single fiber recordings measure jitter, the tiny shifts in timing between two muscle fibers that share the same nerve.
Medicine
The old camcorder added jitter to its sync signal, so every frame wobbled slightly when played on a studio monitor.
Photography
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