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flimmer

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English

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Etymology

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From blend of flicker +‎ glimmer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flimmer (plural flimmers)

  1. A flickering glimmer.[1][2]
  2. One of the delicate lateral filaments typical of some flagella. (mastigoneme)[1]

Verb

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flimmer (third-person singular simple present flimmers, present participle flimmering, simple past and past participle flimmered)

  1. (intransitive) To glimmer, flicker.
    Synonyms: twinkle, flicker, glimmer

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 flimmer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

Swedish

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Etymology

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Deverbal from flimra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flimmer n

  1. flickering
  2. (in some compounds) fibrillation

Declension

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Declension of flimmer
nominative genitive
singular indefinite flimmer flimmers
definite flimret flimrets
plural indefinite
definite

Derived terms

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