Jitter vs Fitter - What's the difference?
jitter | fitter |
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.
comparative form of fit
a person who fits or assembles something
(informal) an epileptic
(UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
As nouns the difference between jitter and fitter
is that jitter is a nervous action; a tic or jitter can be (computing) a program or routine that performs jitting while fitter is a person who fits or assembles something.As a verb jitter
is to be nervous.As an adjective fitter is
comparative form of fit.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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Synonyms
* fidgetEtymology 2
Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(head)- An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.
- My bird's loads fitter than yours.
Noun
(en noun)- a fitter of clothing, or of machinery
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