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“shutter”
shudder, shudder, shutter, shutter
shudder (SHUHD uhr) (verb)
To tremble or to shiver in a convulsive manner: "It was so cold that she started to shudder and could not stop until she went inside to get warm."
shudder (SHUHD uhr) (noun)
The act of trembling or shivering in an uncontrollable manner: "The man felt a shudder go up his spine when he thought of what could have happened if he had missed his plane."
shutter (SHUHT uhr) (noun)
1. A moveable cover that can be closed over the outside of a window or a door: "He decided to paint the shutter on the porch a bright green."
2. Part of a camera that opens and shuts to allow light to expose the film: "The shutter on her camera got stuck and so she had to get it repaired."
2. Part of a camera that opens and shuts to allow light to expose the film: "The shutter on her camera got stuck and so she had to get it repaired."
shutter (SHUHT uhr) (verb)
To move the hinged parallel slats of a cover in a door or over windows to admit air and light or for keeping rain from pouring against the windows: "He wanted to shutter the windows before the rain started."
"She wanted to shutter the windows to keep the house cooler by diminishing the glare of the sun during the summer heat."
I shudder to think what damage might have happened if the shutter on the window had not been closed.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group S; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
(page 4)
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“shutter”
(Latin: bristling, rough, roughness; rudeness; shaking, tremble, trembling, shutter; shock; disgust, hatred; resulting in horror, horrid, etc.)
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“shutter”
electronic shutter
A mechanical shutter with an electronic timing circuit.
Such a circuit allows a wider range of exposure times, can be more accurate, and, when it is put in a circuit with a photoconductive cell, it permits automatic settings of shutter speeds.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 68)
electro-optic shutter
A device used to control or to block a light beam by means of the Kerr electro-optical effect (a change in rotation of light reflected off a magnetic field).
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 73)
electro-optical shutter, electrooptical shutter
A shutter which uses a Kerr cell to modulate a beam of light.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 74)