EGAVE

shimmer

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
  2. verb Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
  3. noun A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
  4. noun A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
  5. noun A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.

Similar words

play glimmer gleam flimmer twinkle glitter blink scintillate wink glint

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Word family

shimmered shimmering shimmers shimmery

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