shimmers

Noun (1)

shimmer (plural shimmers)

1. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
   • 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.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254

   Synonyms:

   glimmer

2. A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
   • 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.2010, Daniel R. Boone, The Voice and Voice Therapy, Pearson College Division, →ISBN

Noun (2)

shimmer (plural shimmers)

1. (crime) 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.

   Synonyms:

   shim

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