• Finnish: lepattaa
• French: voleter, voltiger, Faséyer
• German: flattern
• Kurdish:
• Russian: razvivatsa'
• Spanish: ondear

• Finnish: räpyttää

Noun

1. the act of fluttering
2. a state of agitation
3. an abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart
4. a small bet

Derived terms

• flutter in the dovecote

Flutter can refer to:

• Flutter (electronics and communication) is any rapid variation of signal parameters.
• in aircraft structures, control surfaces and bridge engineering, aeroelastic flutter is a rapid self-excited motion, potentially destructive, usually present above some limiting aircraft speed.
• In aeronautics is, in a few words, an unstability of the aircraft's structural vibration modes due to aerodynamic forces presents.
• in suspended fabric such as flags or clothing, rapid motion due to wind.
• flutter is also the qualitative perception that follows stimulating the skin with a point probe vibrating close to 40 Hz.

In medicine

The term "heart flutter" can mean a few things:

• atrial flutter
• ventricular flutter

In music

• "Flutter" is an album and a composition by Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet.
• "Flutter", a song by Bonobo from his 2003 album Dial 'M' For Monkey
• "Flutter" is also a song by Autechre off 1994's Anti EP.

See also

• Flutter Meter
• Wow and flutter measurement

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