Burst

To separate the sheets of a multipart copy, as to distribute or collate; compare jog. Also, to transmit a packet of encoded or compressed data as a unitary signal element; also ...

Q burst

Weather; Meteorology

An electromagnetic transient launched by a lightning discharge of large amplitude within the earth–ionosphere cavity. Originally named by Toshio Ogawa (1967), the “Q” connotes ...

burst

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The abrupt ionization of the gas in an ionization chamber by cosmic rays. 2. An abrupt increase in the amplitude of a signal. Also, the type of signal that results from burst ...

burst

Telecommunications; General telecom

1. In data communications, a sequence of signals, noise, or interference counted as a unit in accordance with some specific criterion or measure. 2. To separate continuous-form or ...

Guitar Hero

Video games; Rhythm games

Guitar Hero is a series of games where the player is tasked with mimicking the notes of the song being played. It uses special large plastic controllers in the shape of guitars, ...

air

Video games; Rhythm games

A measure of how many jumps are present in a single notechart.

bemani

Video games; Rhythm games

Short for "beatmania", one of the earliest rhythm games. These days the term is used to refer to all rhythm games.

vibrating

Video games; Rhythm games

Vibrating your arm muscles to produce a very fast shaking movement in the hands. Can lead to even faster button presses than wristjacking but cannot be done by the human body ...

ghosting

Video games; Rhythm games

An error caused by keyboard matrix architecture. Most computer keyboards do not support the ability to hold down multiple keys at the same time and have every key register. This ...

c-mod

Video games; Rhythm games

A modification that causes every notechart to scroll along the screen at a constant and specific speed, regardless of the song's original beats per minute.