noun
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The state of being undecided.
verb
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To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold.
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To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
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To do something nervously.
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To render an approximation of (an image, etc.) by using dot patterns to approximate (the features of) colors not in the system palette.
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To intentionally add noise to a signal to randomize errors.
Examples of dither in a Sentence
Excuse me for staring, but aren't you the young lady that had Ashley in a dither?
Most women would be in a dither trying to get everything just right for their wedding.
The three loops together cycle through the 216 colors that will not dither in a web browser.
I didn't so much dither as wander around a little pondering my options.
You do n't dither about whether he should go or he should stay.
If you want to reduce the size of a graphic by specifying a palette, it is much better to use an "adaptive palette" and trust the computer to dither the colors in the best possible way.
As for having the town in a... dither,...
When a browser would see a color that it was not able to show clearly, it would "dither" the two closest colors it could find.