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blip
(encz) | blip,bod na obrazovce n: Rostislav Svoboda |
blip
(encz) | blip,výkyv n: Zdeněk Brož |
blip
(gcide) | blip \blip\ n.
1. (Radar) a spot of light on a radar screen, showing the
position of a reflecting surface, such as an airplane or
ship.
Note: this sense is also used metaphorically to mean a barely
perceptible object;, Kennedy's candidacy was a mere
blip on Humphrey's radar screen until he won the West
Virginia primary. This is the probably origin of sense
3.
Syn: radar echo, radar target.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. a short upward or downward deviation from a trend line on
a graph, especially in a plot of some variable, such as an
economic variable, against time; as, a brief blip upward
in the unemployment rate.
[PJC]
3. something small or insignificant.
[PJC]
4. a brief interruption in the continuity of a recorded or
transmitted signal; as, there is a blip on my CD of
Beethoven's ninth.
[PJC] |
blip
(wn) | blip
n 1: a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption; "the
market had one bad blip today"; "you can't react to the
day-to-day blips"; "renewed jitters in the wake of a blip
in retail sales"
2: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a
reflecting surface [syn: blip, pip, radar target] |
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