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jitter

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Synonyms: titter, bitter, litter, jotter, ritter, witter, pitter, jetter, fitter, hitter, sitter

Antonyms: titter, bitter, litter, jotter, ritter, witter, pitter, jetter, fitter, hitter, sitter

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Noun

  1. A nervous action; a tic.
  2. A state of nervousness.
    • That creepy movie gave me the jitters.
  3. An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
  4. A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.

Verb

  1. To be nervous.
  2. To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.

Noun

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

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