shimmer

IPA: ʃˈɪmɝ

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

Examples of "shimmer" in Sentences

Galead saw the Stone set in the sword shimmer and pale.
They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten.
The texture of the lipstick is lovely, not too opaque and with slight "wet" shimmer, which is exactly what I like.
In order to sell flats to people who might not like the idea of council estates, the developers wanted what the architects call "shimmer".
You type in -war" (knocking the errant hair aside as you strike the A), and watch the word shimmer like a line of phosphorescent battle dust on the PC screen.
I used a creamier face and body shimmer, which is easier to work with than watery/gel-based products, which are good for the body but hard to work with on the face.
This dreamy shimmer is a tension that both sustains the poems idealism and exposes the ideological bind of proffering poetry as the thing to be done in political crisis
As tiny, pretty mega-talent Cher Lloyd stepped on to the X Factor stage last month in shimmer foundation, squashed-spider eyelashes and over-pruned brows, only for Louis Walsh to trill, You're 16?
Giant honeybees are known to flip their bellies up en masse to create a giant wave called a shimmer, somewhat akin to humans rhythmically throwing their hands in the air in a wave at a football game.