shimmer
IPA: ʃˈɪmɝ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
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Examples of "shimmer" in Sentences
- Something shimmered in his room.
- The light is shimmering brightly.
- Winning the Shimmer title is not enough.
- He is the mate of Kiara and father to Shimmer.
- To shimmer or not to shimmer, that is not the question for McCarley.
- It is especially beautiful at night, when the lights of the city shimmer below.
- He is the founder of the all female wrestling promotion Shimmer Women Athletes.
- Time to shimmer and shine, glitter and glow in this season's hottest holiday looks.
- Marine organisms shimmer or glow with metallic and neon colours for various purposes.
- The Christmas Prelude lights still shimmer and February for Lovers discounts are coming.
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