Deadline vs Jitter - What's the difference?
deadline | jitter |
A date on or before which something must be completed.
(archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
(archaic) A line that does not move. (rfex)
(archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
(military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.
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A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
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(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
As nouns the difference between deadline and jitter
is that deadline is a date on or before which something must be completed while jitter is a nervous action; a tic or jitter can be (computing) a program or routine that performs jitting.As verbs the difference between deadline and jitter
is that deadline is (military) to render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc while jitter is to be nervous.deadline
English
(wikipedia deadline)Noun
(en noun)- I must make this deadline or my boss will ''kill'' me!
Verb
(deadlin)jitter
English
Etymology 1
Possibly alteration ofNoun
(en noun)- That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- 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.
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