| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Flicker.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb flicker.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flicker) | 1. Move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered".[Wordnet]. 2. Shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered".[Wordnet]. 3. Flash intermittently.[Wordnet]. 4. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.[Websters]. 5. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: flickering, flickered, flickers, flickerer, flickerers, flickeringly and flickeredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLICKERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flicker
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To flutter; to flap the wings without flying; to strike rapidly with the wings. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Aerospace | The appearance of flashing that occurs in a computer display when the display is not refreshed frequently enough causing the phosphor to begin to decay prior to being refreshed. (references) | ||
| Computing | 1: An undesirable pulsation of a display image on a cathode ray tube. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: In computer graphics, an undesirable pulsation of a display image on a cathode-ray tube that usually occurs when the refresh rate is low. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Electrical Engineering | 1: An impression of fluctuating luminance or color, occurring when the frequency of the variation of the light stimulus lies between a few hertz and the fusion frequency of the images. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The repetitive voltage variations at a rate and of an amplitude sufficient to induce the phenomenon of flicker in the output of lighting equipment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Post & Telecom | Undesired form of frequency modulation introduced into the recorded signal by an irregular motion of the recording medium during the recording/reproducing process, the frequency of which is above 10 Hz. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | FLICKER. A drinking glass. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] A short moment. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] An unsteady flash of light. (references) | 3: [Etymology 2] (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light. (references) | 4: [Etymology 2] (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter. (references) |
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Common Expressions: flicker
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Flea flicker | A flea-flicker is an unorthodox play (often called a trick play) in American football. It is designed to fool the defensive team into thinking it is a running play instead of a passing play. (references) | ||
| Flicker (musician) | Flicker (real name Miles Woodward) was the original bass guitarist of Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. (references) | ||
| Flicker (novel) | Flicker is a novel by Theodore Roszak and published in 1991. (references) | ||
| Flicker (screen) | Flicker is visible fading between image frames displayed on cathode ray tube (CRT) based monitor. Flicker occurs when the monitor's CRT is driven at a low refresh rate, allowing the screen's phosphors to lose their excitation between sweeps of the electron gun. For example, if a computer monitor's vertical refresh rate is set to 60 Hz, most monitors will produce a visible "flickering" effect. Most people find that refresh rates of 85 Hz and above enable flicker-free viewing on CRTs. Refresh rates above 120 Hz are uncommon, as they provide no noticeable flicker reduction. On LCDs, lower refresh rates (around 75 Hz) are often acceptable. (references) | ||
| Flicker Film Festival | Flicker is an ongoing film festival that happens in many cities around the world. This non-competitive film screening series is dedicated to giving local filmmakers an outlet and forum for their Super 8mm and 16mm short films. (references) | ||
| Flicker fixer | Flicker fixer is a computer hardware which performs a function opposite to this of scan converter. The purpose of flicker fixer is an adjustment of video signal prepared for TV to the needs of an ordinary CRT computer display. (references) | ||
| Flicker fusion threshold | The flicker fusion threshold (or flicker fusion rate) is a concept in the psychophysics of vision. It is defined as the frequency at which all flicker of an intermittent light stimulus disappears. (references) | ||
| Flicker Like a Candle | Flicker Like A Candle is the debut release by electro-industrial band Stromkern. It was first released in 1997, and later expanded to a full length album in 2001 as the Millenium Edition. It includes a cover of The Mercy Seat, originally by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. (references) | ||
| Gilded flicker | Southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Gilded Flicker | The Gilded Flicker, Colaptes chrysoides, is a large-sized woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm) of the Sonoran Desert region of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Golden yellow underwings distinguish the Gilded Flicker from the Northern Flicker found within the same region, which have red underwings. The Gilded Flicker most frequently builds its nest hole in a majestic saguaro cactus. Northern Flickers, on the other hand, nest in riparian trees and very rarely inhabit saguaros. Gilded Flickers occasionally hybridize with Northern Flickers in the narrow zones where their range and habitat overlap. (references) | ||
| Northern Flicker | The Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, is a medium-sized woodpecker. (references) | ||
| Red-shafted flicker | Western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Yellow-shafted flicker | Large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flicker
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Flicker book | Art | A type of toy book published during the 19th century, containing a sequence of closely-related cartoon-style illustrations designed to give the impression of animation when the pages are fanned from cover to cover, similar to the visual effect created by the rapid projection of frames in a motion picture. (references) | |
| Flicker control | Aerospace | Control of an aircraft, rocket, etc. in which the control surfaces are deflected to their fullest degree with any motion of the remote control. Compare proportional control. See bang-bang control. (references) | |
| Flicker frequency | Medicine | Rate of intermittency, alternation, or variation of the presentation of photic stimulation to the eye, usually expressed in cycles per second. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Flicker Fusion | Health | The point or frequency at which all flicker of an intermittent light stimulus disappears. (references) | |
| Flicker method | Environment | The alternative projection of corresponding photographic images onto a tracing-table platen or projection screen, or into the optical train of a photogrammetric instrument. See STEREO IMAGE ALTERNATOR. (references) | |
| Flicker range | Electrical Engineering | The repetitive voltage variations at a rate and of an amplitude sufficient to induce the phenomenon of flicker in the output of lighting equipment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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