Shimmer

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
3. A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.

Equivalents

Examples

“I shut⟳ the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.”

“The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like⟳ small mounds of clean⟳ vegetable refuse⟳. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.”

“He’d aimed film lamps at the rectangular pools, which sent reflections up the gallery wall in veined and fractured shimmers.”

“As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.”

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