Flicker
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- Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus ColaptesColaptesColaptes is the genus of woodpeckers which contains the flickers. The scientific name means "the pecker", Latinized from the Greek verb kolápto , "to peck"....
- Flicker (screen)Flicker (screen)Flicker is a visible fading between cycles displayed on video displays, especially the refresh interval on cathode ray tube based computer screens. Flicker occurs on CRTs when they are driven at a low refresh rate, allowing the brightness to drop for time intervals sufficiently long to be noticed...
, a fading between frames that occurs on a cathode-ray screen at low refresh rates - Power line flickerPower line flickerPower-line flicker is a visible change in brightness of a lamp due to rapid fluctuations in the voltage of the power supply. The source of this is the voltage drop generated over the source impedance of the grid by the changing load current of an equipment or facility. These fluctuations in time...
, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3 - Flicker noiseFlicker noiseFlicker noise is a type of electronic noise with a 1/ƒ, or pink power density spectrum. It is therefore often referred to as 1/ƒ noise or pink noise, though these terms have wider definitions...
, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum. - Flicker, a guitar tremoloTremoloTremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...
made by ESP Guitars in the late 70s and early 80s
Popular culture
- Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street PreachersManic Street PreachersManic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
- Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing DragonsBlazing DragonsBlazing Dragons is the title of a popular British cartoon series, the brainchild of Monty Python's Terry Jones. A coinciding graphic adventure video game was released for the original PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996 by Crystal Dynamics...
- Flicker (novel)Flicker (novel)Flicker is a novel by Theodore Roszak published in 1991.The novel covers approximately 15–20 years of the life of film scholar Jonathan Gates, whose academic investigations draw him into the shadowy world of esoteric conspiracy that underlies the work of fictional B-movie director Max Castle...
, a book by Theodore Roszak - Flicker, a candle maker transformed into a candle man appearing in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric ShanowerEric ShanowerEric James Shanower is an American comics artist and writer, best known for his Oz novels and comics and the on-going retelling of the Trojan War as Age of Bronze.-Biography:...
. - Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by Bally
- Flicker Film FestivalFlicker Film FestivalFlicker Film Festival is an ongoing film festival that happens in many cities around the world. This non-competitive film screening series is dedicated to giving local filmmakers an outlet and forum for their Super 8 and 16 mm short films.- External links :...
, an ongoing film series featuring Super 8 and 16mm short films - Flicker RecordsFlicker RecordsFlicker Records is a Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded by members of Christian rock group Audio Adrenaline. The label mainly focuses on rock/hard rock artists, though it also created a subsidiary, Big House Kids, for Christian children's music.The label was...
, a record label belonging to Sony - Flicker (album)Flicker (album)Flicker is the third album by electro-industrial project Ayria, released in 2005. A deluxe edition featured a bonus disc and an extra cardboard box to store the album in.-Track listing:# "It's Been Fun" – 4:46# "Counterblow" – 5:35...
, Ayria's second album - The FlickerThe FlickerThe Flicker is an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad. The film consists of only 5 different frames, a warning frame, two title frames, a black frame, and a white frame. It is currently being re-made digitally into a compact computer program by Tony Conrad's son...
, an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad - FLicKeR (film)FLicKeR (film)FLicKeR is a Canadian documentary film written and directed by Nik Sheehan, produced by Maureen Judge and Silva Basmajian . The film is based on the book "Chapel of Extreme Experience " by John Geiger about the work of artist Brion Gysin and his Dreamachine.Gysin's Dreamachine used a 100-watt light...
, written and directed by Nik Sheehan and produced by Maureen Judge and Silva Basmajian (National Film Board of Canada)
Slang
- A remote controlRemote controlA remote control is a component of an electronics device, most commonly a television set, used for operating the television device wirelessly from a short line-of-sight distance.The remote control is usually contracted to remote...
device (especially for televisions) - A flyswatterFlyswatterA flyswatter is a hand-held device for killing flies and other insects. A flyswatter usually consists of a small rectangular sheet of lightweight, flexible, vented material, usually thin metallic, rubber, or plastic mesh, attached to a lightweight wire or plastic handle about long...
See also
- FlickrFlickrFlickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
, a digital photo sharing website and service - FlickaFlicka-Chart performance:...
, a 2006 film based on the book My Friend Flicka - Flick (disambiguation)