Flicker

Flicker may refer to:

• Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus Colaptes
• Flicker (screen), a change in brightness between frames that occurs on a cathode-ray screen at low refresh rates
• Flicker (light), a directly visible change in brightness of a light source
• Flicker, a guitar tremolo made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Science/Engineering

• A system may flicker (jump between basins of attraction) as it approaches a critical transition.
• Power-line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3
• Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum.

People

• Tal Flicker (born 1992), Israeli judoka
• Theodore Flicker (1930–2014), American playwright
• Yuval Flicker (born 1955), American mathematician

Popular culture

• Flicker, the sophomore album by Ayria
• Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers
• Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing Dragons
• Flicker (novel), by Theodore Roszak
• Flicker, a candle maker transformed into a candle man appearing in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric Shanower
• Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by Bally
• Flicker Records, a record label belonging to Sony
• Flicker (album), the debut studio album by Niall Horan, or its title track
• The Flicker, an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad
• Flicker (film), a 2008 Canadian film
• "Flicker" (song), a song by Porter Robinson from the album Worlds
• "Flicker", a song by Audio Adrenaline from the album Some Kind of Zombie

Slang

• A remote control device (especially for televisions)
• A flyswatter

See also

• Flecker, a surname
• Flicka, a 2006 film based on the book My Friend Flicka
• Flick (disambiguation)
• Flickr, a digital photo sharing website and service