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jitter | x |

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 of

Noun

(en noun)
  • A nervous action; a tic.
  • A state of nervousness.
  • That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " 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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.}}
  • (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be nervous.
  • Synonyms
    * fidget

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting.
  • Anagrams

    *

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} 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 ----