Jitter vs X - What's the difference?
jitter | x |
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
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* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun jitter
is a nervous action; a tic or jitter can be (computing) a program or routine that performs jitting.As a verb jitter
is to be nervous.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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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