[きてん, kiten] (n) light spot (e.g. blip on radar); always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD screens, etc.); calescence point [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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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