What is "jitters"

Usage examples of "jitters".

Each of these diagrams provides a handy and simple way of depicting the physical processes involved: The incoming strings merge together, quantum jitters cause the resulting loop to split apart into a virtual string pair, these travel along and then annihilate one another by merging together into a single loop, which travels along and produces another virtual string pair, and on and on.

The calculational formalism shows that the larger the string coupling constant, the more likely it is that quantum jitters will cause an initial string to split apart (and subsequently rejoin).

Even a particle as heavy as the top quark, with a mass about 189 times that of the proton, can arise from a vibrating string only if the string's enormous characteristic Planck-scale energy is canceled by the jitters of quantum uncertainty to better than one part in a hundred million billion.

Like opposite ends of a seesaw, when the quantum jitters of a boson are positive, those of a fermion tend to be negative, and vice versa.

He was over his jitters of the night before, feeling good and rather cocky.

Then I couldn't sleep because of the jitters, so I jumped McNab to sort of remind myself why I'm doing this, and that took a while because, you know, I was pretty jittery"

Then I couldn't sleep because of the jitters, so I jumped McNab to sort of remind myself why I'm doing this, and that took a while because, you know, I was pretty jittery—"

I just wish, sort of, that we’d gone ahead with it right off the bat so there wouldn’t be all these jitters and wondering and buildup so it all seems so .

His pulse picked up at the sound, thudding in his eardrums and beating at his throat, a heady mixture of anticipation, pre-combat jitters, cold anger at Brenna McEgan for having forced him to come after her, and a healthy dollop of sheer, schoolboy excitement.

He'd made plenty of night sorties, both in training and actual combat, but pre-battle jitters were simply part of the package.