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dither

UK
/ˈdɪð.ə/
US
/ˈdɪð.ɚ/

Translations

dithernoun
dithers
pl
Her dither about which dress to wear made them late for the party.
Её нерешительность в выборе платья заставила их опоздать на вечеринку.
Additional translations
замешательство
колебание
Synonyms
indecision
hesitation
wavering
uncertainty
vacillation
ditherverb
dithered
Past Simple
dithered
Past Participle
dithering
Gerund
UK
/ˈdɪð.ə/
US
/ˈdɪð.ɚ/
She tends to dither when making important decisions.
Она склонна колебаться при принятии важных решений.
Synonyms
tremble
teeter
falter
fluctuate
vacillate
oscillate
waver
hesitate
Antonyms
resolve
settle
decide
ditheradjective
more dither
Comp.
most dither
Super.
Used attributively in technical contexts (e.g., "dither algorithm").
Synonyms
jittery
upset
nervous
flustered
agitated
shaken
panicky
worked-up
overwrought
distraught
unsettled
uneasy
anxious
perturbed
restless

Definitions

dithernoun
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
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
Relating to or employing dithering in digital signal processing or computer graphics.
Use a dither algorithm to avoid banding in the sky.
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