FLICKERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flickering mean? 

• FLICKERING (adjective)
  The adjective FLICKERING has 1 sense:

1. shining unsteadily

  Familiarity information: FLICKERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLICKERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shining unsteadily

Synonyms:

aflicker; flickering

Similar:

unsteady (subject to change or variation)

 Context examples 

Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Geminga was finally identified in March 1991, when flickering X-rays picked up by Germany’s ROSAT mission revealed the source to be a pulsar spinning 4.2 times a second.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sputtering wood fire threw out a circle of red flickering light which played over the little group of wayfarers, and showed up every line and shadow upon their faces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As for sounds, there was the steady drone of the snorers and a small occasional noise, a flickering or pecking that I could in no way account for.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Some flickering efforts to spare you the premature knowledge of his calamitous position, you may observe in him this day; but hope has sunk beneath the horizon, and the undersigned is Crushed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So ended the day, save that near midnight our friend, the sergeant, called to say that he had seen flickering lights here and there in the windows of the great dark house, but that no one had left it and none had entered.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a sudden swirl in the crowd, a rush, a shout, and high up in the air there spun an old black hat, floating over the heads of the ring-siders and flickering down within the ropes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers use sophisticated algorithms to search the data for these dips in brightness, and in particular, to correct for the spacecraft’s small movements in space—this is the 'flickering' of the pixels seen in the movie.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

It was a rather pretty little picture, for the sisters sat together in the shady nook, with sun and shadow flickering over them, the aromatic wind lifting their hair and cooling their hot cheeks, and all the little wood people going on with their affairs as if these were no strangers but old friends.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)