Shimmer

Quick meaning: Shimmer is a verb meaning (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.

Meaning

(intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.

More Meanings

1. 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.
2. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
3. (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
4. (crime) 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.

Example Sentences

The shimmering glimpses of a stream

Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.

He’d aimed film lamps at the rectangular pools, which sent reflections up the gallery wall in veined and fractured shimmers.

The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.

Word Forms

• shimmers
• shimmering
• shimmered

Synonyms for shimmer

Depending on context, synonyms include twinkle, sparkle, glisten, glimmer, play.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include play, glimmer, gleam, flimmer, twinkle, glitter.

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