jitter

Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

case of the jitters

A temporary state of nervous anxiety or anticipation. Marty: "Are you ready to deliver your speech?" Anthony: "Yeah. I've got a bad case of the jitters though!"

get the jitters

To experience a temporary state of nervous anxiety or anticipation. A: "Are you ready to deliver your speech?" B: "Yeah. I've got a bad case of the jitters, though!"

the jitters

A temporary state of nervous anxiety or anticipation. Marty: "Are you ready to deliver your speech?" Anthony: "Yeah. I've got the jitters real bad, though!" I have a song that I hum to myself to help get rid of the jitters before big competitions.

get/have the ˈjitters

(informal) feel anxious and nervous, especially before an important event or before having to do something difficult: I always get the jitters before exams. ♢ Louise had the pre-wedding jitters so badly she nearly didn’t make it to the church.

the jitters

(ˈdʒɪdɚz)

n. the nervous shakes. I get the jitters when I have to talk in public.

See also: jitter

See also:

References in periodicals archive ?

The place to start when looking for jitter is Time Interval Error (TIE) and phase noise measurements.

Measuring digital clock stability and jitter with an oscilloscope

From the various criteria, the preferred features for determining the steadiness of a voice are jitter, shimmer, and HNR [6, 7, 8].

Diagnosing Vocal Disorders using Cobweb Clustering of the Jitter, Shimmer, and Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio

On the other hand, the 1st eigenfrequency of the RWA isolation system along the z-axis is not clearly observed in the waterfall plot because the main jitter contributor of the RWA is the rotational movement in the x-y plane.

Experimental Validation of Fly-Wheel Passive Launch and On-Orbit Vibration Isolation System by Using a Superelastic SMA Mesh Washer Isolator

Action potentials with amplitudes >200 [micro]V and rise times <300 [micro]s were selected for calculating the FD and jitter. The CN-jitter and spike number were defined using CNs and the SFEMG program.

Quantitating Changes in Jitter and Spike Number Using Concentric Needle Electrodes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients

All jitter analyses were done off-line from these traces.

Jitter values on voluntary active periocular muscles of healthy subjects with conventional (37 mm) concentric needle electrode

PCIe jitter tool to address these needs, providing hardware designers with a downloadable utility that quickly determines if the measured clock meets PCIe jitter requirements.

SILICON LABS INTRODUCES FREE SOFTWARE TOOL

in this figure, to reduce jitter of Task B, the required release time prior to Task B is equal to the worst-case execution time (WCET) of Task A plus scheduler overhead.

Effective scheduling algorithm and scheduler implementation for use with time-triggered co-operative architecture

The BSA286CL has a fully redesigned jitter impairment system that incorporates state of the art modulation technology to 100G PHY layer testing.

Tester handles severe jitters

Jitter may be seen in characteristics such as the interval between successive pulses, or the amplitude, frequency, and phase of successive cycles [17].

A PARAMETRIC QOS ANALYSIS OF WIMAX SCHEDULING SERVICES

In such cases, jitter measurement & pulse mask compliance is very useful in diagnosing problems.

GL Announces Jitter Generation on T1 E1 Lines

This synthesizer employs a moderate bandwidth PLL, programmable from 400 kHz to 1.2 MHz, to attenuate fractional-N spurs, and the reference and charge-pump noise, while suppressing the VCO phase noise to comply with stringent jitter specifications of numerous wireline standards.

Low-jitter 0.1-to-5.8 GHz clock synthesizer for area-efficient per-port integration

Karnataka, June 21 -- GL Communications Inc., announced today its enhanced T1 E1 Jitter and Pulse Mask Measurement Solutions.

GL Announces Enhanced T1 E1 Jitter and Pulse Mask Measurement Solutions

CITE

Site: Follow: Share:

Open / Close