flag-waving
nounEtymology From flag + waving.
1
Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
2
Broadcasting, Media, Television Dated Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in an analog video signal.
- They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:
- The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:
- Related terms
- flag-waver