(v. t.) To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
(v. i.) A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent visit to Hamleys' new dolls area turned up a bumper brash-pack of new fashion dolls from the big companies: LaDeeDa Dolls (a swift move by SpinMaster), buzzing Flitter Fairies (Wow Stuff), glow-in-the-dark Bratzillaz (a brazen MGA fast-follow of the huge Mattel Monster High), Ever After High (Mattel), flashing Novi Stars (also MGA, alien dolls with Camden market hair springs and extensions) and all sorts of blinky, noisy merch spinoffs.
(2) At higher transvalvular pressure differences the downstream end of the bicuspid valve alternately closes and reopens (flitter), and functions as an acoustic oscillator.
(3) The threshold of the onset of flitter varies with the product of the pressure and the square of the length of the valve aperture, divided by the wall tension and thickness.
(4) The "Flitter test" proved to be useful in the early post-operative period only.
(5) Turbulent flow was created by having, at one end, a cannula acting as a stenosis, producing vibrations or a "flitter" in the wall.
(6) The recurrence rate of flitter varies with the tension on the leaflets and inversely with the thickness.
(7) Doron Klemer, a football fan who has travelled the world for the past 15 years, flittering from one major sporting event to the next has been an avid Panini collector since Mexico 86.
(8) The significance of these data in the onset of the flitter and of the recurrence rate is discussed in terms of the production of sounds and murmurs at the heart valves, vocal cords and other sites.
Flittermouse
Definition:
(n.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.