shimmerverb詞源 1/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/

• 1

  To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.

  • 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
  • The shimmering glimpses of a stream
• 2

  Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.

shimmernoun詞源 1/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/

• 1

  A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.

  • I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
  • The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.
• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsA measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.

  • As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.

shimmernoun詞源 2/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/

• 1

  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.