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Definition of Flicker
1. Noun. A momentary flash of light.
2. Verb. Move back and forth very rapidly. "The streets flicker with crowds"; "The candle flickered"
Generic synonyms: Move Back And Forth
Derivative terms: Flutter, Fluttering, Waver
3. Noun. North American woodpecker.
Group relationships: Colaptes, Genus Colaptes
Specialized synonyms: Colaptes Auratus, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Yellowhammer, Colaptes Chrysoides, Gilded Flicker, Colaptes Caper Collaris, Red-shafted Flicker
4. Verb. Shine unsteadily. "The horizon is flickering with lights"; "The candle flickered"
5. Noun. The act of moving back and forth.
Generic synonyms: Motility, Motion, Move, Movement
Derivative terms: Flutter, Flutter, Waver, Waver, Waver, Waver
6. Verb. Flash intermittently. "The lights flicked on and off"
Definition of Flicker
1. v. i. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
2. n. The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
Definition of Flicker
1. Noun. (American English) A certain type of small woodpecker, especially of the genus ''Colaptes'' ¹
2. Noun. An unsteady flash of light. ¹
3. Noun. A short moment. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flicker
1. to move waveringly [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Flicker
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1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Flicker
Literary usage of Flicker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"The importance of the flicker photometer lies in the fact, that if e illuminations
have different colours as well as different intensities, ,e cross can be ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The first time I ever saw a flicker I said, "What a wonderful meadow- lark and
what is it ... The top of the flicker's head and its back are slaty- gray, ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE flicker O the flicker! He is here— April's hardy pioneer I Soul of young
hilarity! He's the bird, the bird for me! ..."
4. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"flicker sensations generated at " corresponding retinal points " ; absence of
evidence of their summation or interference either with synchronous or ..."
5. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"The flicker Method. — It is a familiar fact that the sensation produced by light
persists for a fraction of a second after the light has ceased to be ..."
6. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"The Rood-Whitman flicker Photometer When lights differ in color it is difficult,
... Even when the lights differ widely the flicker photometer permits of ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... to have used a method of observation closely akin to the flicker method, though
apparently without perceiving its definite character or possibilities. ..."
8. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"Observations on ' flicker' in Binocular Vision. ... A practical aim was to measure
by the " flicker " method of Photometry any difference of physiological ..."
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