English-French translations for dither

• tergiverser
  Aujourd’hui, il n’est plus temps de tergiverser. There is no time left to dither now.
  L'Occident a agi contre M. Kadhafi, mais il continue à tergiverser au sujet de l'Iran, peut-être parce que M. Kadhafi est déjà tombé, alors que M. Ahmadinejad n'est pas encore dans ce cas. The West took action against Mr Gaddafi, but it continues to dither over Iran, perhaps because Mr Gaddafi has already fallen whilst Mr Ahmadinejad so far has not.
• tramage

Definition of dither

• To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold
• To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something
• To do something nervously
• To intentionally add noise to a signal to randomize errors
• The state of being undecided
• A form of noise which is intentionally applied to randomize errors which occur in the processing of both digital audio and digital video data

Related words

• dithering
• ditheism
• all of a dither