tremor
nounUK /ˈtɹɛmə/ · US /ˈtɹɛmɚ/
Etymology From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
1A shake, quiver, or vibration.
- She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
2Medicine, Sciences A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
- The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
- Did you feel the tremor this morning?
- Derived terms
- antitremor, earth tremor, essential tremor, harmonic tremor, microtremor, night tremor, tremology, tremordominant, tremorful, tremorgenic, tremorgram, tremorgraph, tremorgraphy, tremorine, tremorless, tremorlike, tremorogenic, tremorous
tremor
verbEtymology From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
1To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
- The ground tremored under their big boots.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 17, in Small Island, London: Review, page 188: