jitter

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A nervous action; a tic.
2. noun A state of nervousness.

   That creepy movie gave me the jitters.

3. noun An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
4. noun A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
5. verb To be nervous.
6. verb To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.
7. noun A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.

Similar words

nerves nervousness screaming meemies wow volatility instability vagueness fluctuating swing vibration

Often followed by

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Word family

jittered jittering jitters