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Definition of Flickering
1. Adjective. Shining unsteadily.
Definition of Flickering
1. Verb. (present participle of flicker) ¹
2. Noun. A short, uncertain burst. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flickering
1. flicker [v] - See also: flicker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flickering
Literary usage of Flickering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"With a faint illumination, the flickering indicative of the successive sensations
from the white sectors not being completely fused, ceases when the ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"flickering Lightning. Mr. Alexander Larsen has contributed a very interesting
paper to the Smithsonian Report for 1905, on "Photographing Lightning with a ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"That hovers over her mid dares her daily, Some flickering slave. B. . ... L am
not any flickering thing: You men call ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"flickering LIGHTS 39. The flickering and jumping of gas lights is caused by the
presence of water in the pipes. The liquid accumulates in sags and low ..."
5. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Thus the vexed waters at a fountain's brim, Smitten by sunshine or the silver
sphere Of a reflected moon, send forth a beam Of flickering light that leaps ..."
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