Usually means: Glimmering light that softly flickers.
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  1. shimmer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shimmer: Merriam-Webster
  3. shimmer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shimmer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shimmer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shimmer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shimmer, shimmer: Wordnik
  8. shimmer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shimmer: Wiktionary
  10. shimmer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shimmer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shimmer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shimmer: Dictionary.com
  14. shimmer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shimmer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SHIMMER, Shimmer (Fuel song), Shimmer (Notaker song), Shimmer (Surgery album), Shimmer (comics), Shimmer (play), Shimmer (song), Shimmer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shimmer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shimmer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shimmer: Rhymezone
  20. shimmer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shimmer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. shimmer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shimmer: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shimmer: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shimmer: Encyclopedia

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  1. shimmer: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
verb:  Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
noun:  A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
noun:  (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
noun:  (crime) A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.

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