nounπShareA nervous action; a tic."The student had a noticeable leg jitter as he waited for his exam results. "mindactionsensationphysiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShare(chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness."That creepy movie gave me the jitters."emotionmindsensationconditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShareAn abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics."The video call was difficult because the severe jitter in the signal made the picture freeze and skip. "signalelectronicstechnologycomputingphysicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShare(data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap."To better visualize the survey results, the data visualization software applied a slight jitter to each dot, separating points that would otherwise have been stacked directly on top of each other. "computingstatisticstechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verbπShareTo be nervous."Before her job interview, Maria began to jitter, tapping her foot and fidgeting in her seat. "mindemotionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verbπShare(data visualization) To randomly position of data points to avoid visual overlap."To show the individual scores of students who all got the same grade, the teacher decided to jitter the points on the graph so we could see each one instead of just one big dot. "statisticscomputingtechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShareA program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler."The Java Virtual Machine uses a jitter to translate bytecode into machine code for faster execution. "computingtechnologytechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
