twitters

Noun (1)

twitter (countable and uncountable, plural twitters)

1. The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
   • I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
2. (uncountable) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
   • Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.1986, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986, IEEE, page 145
3. (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
4. (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
5. (UK, countable, informal, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.

Noun (2)

twitter (plural twitters)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.

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