dither

UK
/ˈdɪð.ə/
US
/ˈdɪð.ɚ/
dithernoun
dithers
pl
Translations
Her dither about which dress to wear made them late for the party.
Её нерешительность в выборе платья заставила их опоздать на вечеринку.
Definitions
A state of agitation or indecisiveness.
She was in a dither about whether to accept the job offer or not.
A trembling or vibration.
The dither of the engine could be felt throughout the car.
Low-level random noise intentionally added to a digital signal or image to reduce quantization artifacts.
Engineers added a small amount of dither to the audio track to mask quantization noise.
ditherverb
dithered
Past Simple
dithered
Past Participle
dithering
Gerund
UK
/ˈdɪð.ə/
US
/ˈdɪð.ɚ/
Translations
She tends to dither when making important decisions.
Она склонна колебаться при принятии важных решений.
Definitions
To be indecisive or uncertain; to hesitate in making a decision.
She dithered for a long time before finally deciding to accept the job offer.
To apply dither to (a digital signal or image) in order to lessen visible or audible quantization errors.
The software dithers the image to produce smoother gradients.
ditheradjective
more dither
Comp.
most dither
Super.
Used attributively in technical contexts (e.g., "dither algorithm").
Definitions
Relating to or employing dithering in digital signal processing or computer graphics.
Use a dither algorithm to avoid banding in the sky.