nounπShareA nervous action; a tic."Before her presentation, Sarah had some noticeable jitters; her hand kept shaking. "mindsensationconditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShare(chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness."That creepy movie gave me the jitters."mindsensationemotionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShareAn abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics."The sound system in the classroom had jitters, causing the music to crackle and skip. "signalelectronicstechnologyphysicssoundfrequencyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShare(data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap."The scatter plot of student test scores used jitters to prevent the points from overlapping, making it easier to see the distribution of scores. "computingstatisticstechnicalmathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verbπShareTo be nervous."Before my presentation, I could feel my hands jitters with nervousness. "mindsensationemotionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verbπShare(data visualization) To randomly position of data points to avoid visual overlap."To make the scattered dots of students' test scores easier to see on the graph, the program jitters them slightly, preventing them from all overlapping at the exact same score. "computingstatisticstechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
nounπShareA program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.""The video game's performance improved significantly after the jitters optimized the code, resulting in smoother gameplay." "computingtechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
