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jerkiness
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
apparent, comic, good
VERB + JERKINESS
deal
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
1
The state or quality of being jerky (characterized by sudden uneven motion or progress).
[…] there was a good deal of jerkiness apparent in the motion of the car, especially when the wheels turned into the numerous ruts of the drive.
In 1900 Planck announced that radiant energy could only be propagated in tiny, indivisible bundles which he called quanta. Furthermore these bundles did not proceed through space continuously, but by jumps. It was not long before experimenters were finding this lumpiness and jerkiness everywhere.
2
The behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).
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Synonyms
noun — the quality of being spasmodic and irregular
- fitfulness
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[…] there was a good deal of jerkiness apparent in the motion of the car, especially when the wheels turned into the numerous ruts of the drive.
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In 1900 Planck announced that radiant energy could only be propagated in tiny, indivisible bundles which he called quanta. Furthermore these bundles did not proceed through space continuously, but by
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It was not going to be a serious flogging since ineptitude rather than criminality was being punished; and Shama moved about with a comic jerkiness, as though she knew she was only an actor in a farce
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