jitter

Meanings

Noun

• A nervous action; a tic.
• A state of nervousness.
• An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
• A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
• A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.

Verb

• To be nervous.
• To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.

Related

Similar words

• fidget

Origin

• Possibly alteration of chitter, from Middle English chittern ("to twitter, chatter"). Ultimately ; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
• jit + -er