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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪtɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒɪɾɚ]
• 韻: -ɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

jitter (countable and uncountable, plural jitters)

1. A nervous action; a tic.
2. (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.

   That creepy movie gave me the jitters.

   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

     But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.

   • 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

     It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.

   • 2022 May 5, Bill Clinton, 0:00 from the start, in Bill Clinton talks Arkansas politics & Ukraine Full interview‎, THV11, archived from the original on 05 May 2022:

     Interviewer: How do you feel coming back here? What is constantly evoked in you when you see your center again back in Little Rock?
     Clinton: Well first of all if I don't come back about once a month I start to get the jitters.

3. (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
   • 1956, LIFE, volume 41, number 11, page 41:

     Now you have mirror-clear TV without picture flopover, jitter, tear!

4. (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.

派生語

• dejitterize
• jitter lapse
• jittery

関連する語

• jitterbug

動詞

jitter (third-person singular simple present jitters, present participle jittering, simple past and past participle jittered)

1. (intransitive) To be nervous.
2. (data visualization) To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.

同意語

• fidget

派生語

語源 2

From jit +‎ -er.

名詞

jitter (plural jitters)

1. (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.

アナグラム

• trijet