Usually means: Excessively focusing on trivial details.
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  1. nitpicking: Merriam-Webster
  2. nitpicking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nitpicking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nitpicking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Nitpicking, nitpicking: Wordnik
  6. nitpicking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. nitpicking: Wiktionary
  8. nitpicking: Dictionary.com
  9. nitpicking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Nitpicking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. nitpicking: Rhymezone
  12. nitpicking: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See nitpick as well.)

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noun:  The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.

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