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I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.
Pranab Mukherjee

Meaning of "the flicker" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE FLICKER

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE FLICKER

the few
the Fiend
the Fifteen
the filth
the first thing
the Fishes
the five Ks
the Five Towns
the flag
the flat
the Fleet
the Flemish
the flicks
the Flood
the flop
the flu
the Forbidden City
the force
the Forces
the former

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE FLICKER

bicker
bumper sticker
city slicker
clicker
dicker
drug trafficker
flicker
kicker
knicker
licker
picker
ricker
sicker
slicker
snicker
sticker
ticker
tracker
trafficker
whicker
wicker

Synonyms and antonyms of the flicker in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «the flicker» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE FLICKER

Find out the translation of the flicker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the flicker from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the flicker» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

闪烁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el parpadeo
570 millions of speakers

English

the flicker
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झिलमिलाहट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وميض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мерцание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a cintilação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফ্লিকার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le scintillement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelipan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

das Flimmern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フリッカー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

플리커
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sing luwih cepet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhấp nháy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஃப்ளிக்கர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लिकर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Titreme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

il tremolio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

migotanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мерехтіння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

flicker
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

το τρεμόπαιγμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die flikker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flimmer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flimringen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the flicker

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE FLICKER»

The term «the flicker» is regularly used and occupies the 56.637 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE FLICKER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the flicker

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2 QUOTES WITH «THE FLICKER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the flicker.
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Pranab Mukherjee
I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.
2
James Rosenquist
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE FLICKER»

Discover the use of the flicker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the flicker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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In the Flicker of an Eyelid
In the Flicker of an Eyelid, first published in French as L'espace d'un cillement in 1959, appears here in English for the first time in a graceful, expert translation by the veteran critic Carrol F. Coates and the award-winning Haitian ...
Jacques Stéphen Alexis, 2002
2
Flicker: A Novel
From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the ...
Theodore Roszak, 2005
3
Flicker Flash
Flicker Flash
Joan Bransfield Graham, 2003
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An Annotated Bibliography of Flicker Fusion Phenomena ...
Acad. Sci., Wash., 1938, 24, 538-541. The flicker response curve of the nocturnal gecko Sphaerodactylus, which has a purely rod retina, was compared with the previously determined curves of the diurnal turtle Pseudemys, which has a purely  ...
Carney Landis, 1953
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The Great Gatsby
Now, he says, ' "We live in the flicker." " Fitzgerald shifts 'the flicker' to the US, where it functions as the distinctive symbol of modernity, of the new. The flicker of electric light off a car; the flicker of an image as movie film clatters through a ...
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1993
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Voltage Quality in Electrical Power Systems
If the flicker disturbance is caused by a regular voltage change, such as determined by the repetition rate r, Equation (3.26) then becomes Ast = (2.3 s⋅r⋅ (d⋅F)3)/600 s (3.27) If the voltage fluctuations are described by a frequency, this means ...
Jürgen Schlabbach, Dirk Blume, Thomas Stephanblome, 2001
7
Digital Video Hacks
You can remove, or at least reduce, the flicker by making a few minor adjustments. It's not uncommon to be watching a video and notice a television screen or computer monitor in the background flickering. The flicker is caused by the screen's ...
Joshua Paul, 2005
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Handbook of Power Quality
If the system is perfectly balanced, flicker measurements will be the same in the three phases, and line-to-line or line-to-neutral measurements will provide equal results. However, if the flicker source is unbalanced (for instance, a single-phase  ...
Angelo Baggini, 2008
9
Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye
1f the flicker rate is too high, no setting produces strong flicker, causing the subject to have difficulty locating the null region, again resulting in variable settings. The maximum flicker rate we have used for both fovea and parafovea is 1 8 Hz, ...
Allen Taylor, 1999
10
Wireless LAN Radios: System Definition to Transistor Design
3.3 RECEIVER FLICKER NOISE Another receiver impairment is the flicker, or 1/f, noise. Flicker noise is a form of noise which, like the other forms of noise, limits the SNR of the receiver. However, unlike thermal noise, flicker noise has a low ...
Arya Behzad, 2007

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