This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it.
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Flicker
/ˈflɪkə/
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12 entriesflicker across the roomflicker brieflyflicker durationflicker effectflicker noiseflicker of doubtflicker of hopeflicker of lightflicker on screenflicker rateflicker thresholdflicker-free display
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Fires for luring fish at night flicker on the silhouette of an island.
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After one last flicker, the candle went out.
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We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune.
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