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Flicker

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Flicker may refer to:

  • Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus Colaptes
  • Flicker (screen), a darkness artifact that occurs on a video display not present in source material
  • Flicker (light), a perceptible change in brightness of a light source
  • Flicker, a guitar tremolo made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Science/Engineering

  • A system may flicker (jump between basins of attraction) as it approaches a critical transition.
  • Power-line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3
  • Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum.

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