In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
JITTER
jitter
(noun) a small irregular movement
jitter
(noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
jitter (plural jitters)
A nervous action; a tic.
(chiefly, in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
(data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
Verb
jitter (third-person singular simple present jitters, present participle jittering, simple past and past participle jittered)
(intransitive) To be nervous.
(data visualization) To randomly position of data points to avoid visual overlap.
Synonyms
• fidget
Etymology 2
Noun
jitter (plural jitters)
(computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
Anagrams
• trijet
Source: Wiktionary
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