shimmer

Meanings

Plural: shimmers

Noun

• a weak and tremulous light
  • "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"
• A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
• A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
• 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.

Verb

• shine with a weak or fitful light
  • "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight"
• give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk
• To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
• 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.

Synonyms

glimmer, glisten, play, sparkle, twinkle