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  2. Screen tearing - Wikipedia

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    That is only one frame is ever visible, preventing an unsightly tear between two visible and differing frames. This replicates what the compositing manager should be doing, however, TearFree will redirect the compositor updates (and those of fullscreen games) directly onto the scan out thus incurring no additional overhead in the composited case.

  3. Shutter lag - Wikipedia

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    This is a common problem in the photography of fast-moving objects or animals and people in motion. The term narrowly refers only to shutter effects, but more broadly refers to all lag between when the shutter button is pressed and when the photo is taken, including metering and focus lag.

  4. Micro stuttering - Wikipedia

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    Micro stuttering is a quality defect that manifests as irregular delays between frames rendered by a graphics processing unit (GPU). It causes the instantaneous frame rate of the longest delay to be significantly lower than the frame rate reported by benchmarking applications such as 3DMark , which usually calculate the average frame rate over ...

  5. Cluttering - Wikipedia

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    Cluttering is sometimes confused with stuttering. Both communication disorders break the normal flow of speech, but they are distinct. A stutterer has a coherent pattern of thoughts, but may have a difficult time vocally expressing those thoughts; in contrast, a clutterer has no problem putting thoughts into words, but those thoughts become disorganized during speaking.

  6. Stuttering - Wikipedia

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    Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder characterized externally by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words, or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses called blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds.

  7. John Melendez - Wikipedia

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    John Edward Melendez (born October 4, 1965), also known as Stuttering John, is an American entertainer. He is best known for being a staff member and wackpacker on The Howard Stern Show from 1988 to 2004.

  8. Dopamine hypothesis of stuttering - Wikipedia

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    The dopamine hypothesis of stuttering attributes to the phenomenon of stuttering a hyperactive and disturbed dopaminergic signal transduction in the brain. The theory is derived from observations in medical neuroimaging and from the empirical response of some antipsychotics and their antagonistic effects on the dopamine receptor.

  9. Monster Study - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, Paticia Zebrowski, University of Iowa assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology said that the data that resulted from the experiment is the "largest collection of scientific information" on the phenomenon of stuttering and that Johnson's work was the first to discuss the importance of the stutterer's thoughts, attitudes ...