Used in a Sentence

flickering

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for flickering.

Editorial note

In my opinion, there are three major problems: overzealous sharpening, different light ratios and the frame rate dependent flickering.

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Parts of speech2

Quick take

A short, uncertain burst.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of flickering gathered in one view.

noun

A short, uncertain burst.

adjective

shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flickering.

adjective

shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light)

Example sentences

1

In my opinion, there are three major problems: overzealous sharpening, different light ratios and the frame rate dependent flickering.

2

Might want to consider flickering it randomly rather than flashing it to make it feel a little more realistic.

3

A semi-reasonable conversation view can be bolted on with another 3rd party plugin but it feels rough (flickering redraws, ugh).

4

Swift 1.2 has been a massive improvement with incremental compiling and the SourceKit HUD not flickering in my face every few minutes.

5

I've experienced the flickering screen problem which is caused by a rapidly restarting X server (on nvidia-chipset graphics).

6

Lots of people complain about the flickering you get from windmills for example.

7

Also his demo did not had any flickering, and all coded in assembly....

8

I now (probably unfairly) associate Ada with old-school waterfall-driven software development and dank, dark offices with flickering, soul-sucking fluorescent lights.

9

There was this particular client (in the defence industry) who had monitors that started flickering and having a greenish hue at its sides after a week.

10

This will cause a small break when flickering through.

11

It's a form of PWM and the same technique used to drive those large outdoor graphic LED display signs, although to avoid flickering the frequencies are in the tens of kHz.

12

It's really hard to stay focused on an article or piece of text longer than a few sentences with flickering images, autoplaying videos (with sound), and recently those pesky javascript overlay popups.

Quote examples

1

In the limit sensations – thoughts are also considered sensations – come in as separate units and you experience the content of consciousness as very fast "flickering".

2

> thoughts are also considered sensations – come in as separate units and you experience the content of consciousness as very fast "flickering".

3

The only point conveyed to me here was "I can't read this because things are flickering in the corner of my eye", and the parts I did manage to read did not seem worthwhile of the effort.

4

I don't know, but the white text started sort of "flickering" between bright and dark after a while; a paragraph might look pretty bright, then it would suddenly seem darker again while the paragraph above looked brighter.

Proper noun examples

1

Flickering instead of smoothly presenting content is the anti-thesis of material design.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use flickering in a sentence?

In my opinion, there are three major problems: overzealous sharpening, different light ratios and the frame rate dependent flickering.

What does flickering mean?

A short, uncertain burst.

What part of speech is flickering?

flickering is commonly used as noun, adjective.