noun / verb
blip
BLIP/blɪp/
A small signal appearing only briefly.
A small blip appears on the radar screen and quickly vanishes.
Etymology
Blip began as an imitation of a popping sound and later named a radar-screen signal. That brief signal supplies the image for a momentary change or minor problem.
In context
as those engine RPMs drop before they reach down to zero you'll quickly just give a little blip of the throttle
More examples
- The brief sales decline was only a blip.
- A signal blipped on the monitor.
- The graph shows several small blips during the test.
Forms
blip · blips · blipped · blipping
Similar words
- spike
- Usually a sharper or larger temporary rise.
- signal
- Any indication, not necessarily small or momentary.