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shimmer

UK /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/US /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/

noun 3
verb 2
forms 4

noun3

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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
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.
A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.

verb2

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To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
- The shimmering glimpses of a stream — 1850
Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.

forms

shimmered · shimmering · shimmereth · shimmers

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