Staggered vs Jittered - What's the difference?
staggered | jittered |
(stagger)
Astonished, taken aback.
referring to something that has been arranged in a way that is not uniform
(jitter)
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
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, year=2010
, date=December 29
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, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
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(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
As verbs the difference between staggered and jittered
is that staggered is past tense of stagger while jittered is past tense of jitter.As an adjective staggered
is astonished, taken aback.staggered
English
Verb
(head)- The drunk staggered to the end of the bar before he collapsed.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The U.S. Senate holds staggered elections, with only one third of the seats being filled every two years.
jittered
English
Verb
(head)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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