Usually means: Rapid, repeated movement or vibration.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. flutter: Merriam-Webster
  2. flutter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flutter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flutter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flutter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flutter, flutter: Wordnik
  7. flutter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flutter: Wiktionary
  9. flutter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flutter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flutter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flutter: Dictionary.com
  13. flutter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flutter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flutter (American company), Flutter (aircraft), Flutter (animated short), Flutter (comics), Flutter (electronics and communication), Flutter (software), Flutter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flutter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flutter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flutter: Rhymezone
  19. flutter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flutter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Flutter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. flutter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. flutter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Flutter: The Word Detective
  25. flutter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. flutter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. flutter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flutter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flutter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. flutter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Flutter: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. flutter: Medical dictionary
  6. Flutter: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flutter: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flutter: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. flutter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Flutter: Bay Area Video Preservation
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
verb:  (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
verb:  (transitive) To cause something to flap.
verb:  (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous.
verb:  (espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.
noun:  The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
noun:  A state of agitation.
noun:  An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
noun:  (uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
noun:  (British) A small bet or risky investment.
noun:  A hasty game of cards or similar.
noun:  (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

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