shimmer
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Is shimmer a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of shimmer?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.Examples: "1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare"; "The shimmering glimpses of a stream"; "I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered."Synonyms: twinkle, sparkle, glisten, glimmerintransitive
noun (English)
1. (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.Examples: "As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer."
noun (English)
1. (crime) A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
Definition source: Wiktionary