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   dither

   /ˈdɪðə/

   verb

   • 1. be indecisive: "I can't bear people who dither"
   • 2. add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals.
   • ▪ display or print (a colour image) in such a way that it appears to contain more colours than are really available: "the easiest way to remove hot pixels is to dither the images"

   noun

   • 1. indecisive behaviour: informal "after months of dither ministers had still not agreed"
   • 2. a state of agitation: "all of a dither, he prophesied instant chaos"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘tremble, quiver’): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ditherer noun
   • 2. dithery adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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