Dither

Definitions

1. Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
   countable, intransitive, uncountable
2. A state of nervous excitement.
   countable, intransitive, uncountable
3. The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
   countable, intransitive, uncountable
4. Any algorithm applied to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:
   countable, intransitive, uncountable
5. A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
   countable, intransitive, uncountable
6. The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
   countable, intransitive, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Everyone was in a dither; either in it or about to get⟳ in it or just climbing out of it. Naturally, the Madam was not in a dither. Dither was a foreign concept to her.”

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