Chatter may refer to: * A person who chats (talks): ** OnlyFans chatter, a person employed to chat with clients by an OnlyFans model **

Project CHATTER Project Chatter was a United States Navy program beginning in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of drugs in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. Their search included laboratory experiments on both animal and hum ...

(1947–53), a U.S. Navy truth serum project * The sound of many people chatting,

small talk Small talk is an informal type of discourse that does not cover any functional topics of conversation or any transactions that need to be addressed. In essence, it is polite and standard conversation about unimportant things. The phenomenon ...

: ** Chatter (signals intelligence), the volume of communication to or from suspected terrorists or spies ** Chatter (software), enterprise social networking software * Undesirable small rapid

vibration Vibration () is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point. Vibration may be deterministic if the oscillations can be characterised precisely (e.g. the periodic motion of a pendulum), or random if the os ...

s in a mechanical system: **

Chatter (contacts) In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type o ...

or contact bounce, a common problem with mechanical switches and relays ** Chatter (machining), unwanted vibrations while cutting material **

Chattering teeth Chattering teeth is a bodily function in animals that occurs primarily in response to cold; the jaw muscles begin to shiver leading teeth to crash together. It may also occur as a result of bruxism where emotional stress causes the jaw movements. ...

in response to cold ** Oscillations in

sliding mode control In control systems, sliding mode control (SMC) is a nonlinear control method that alters the dynamic system, dynamics of a nonlinear system by applying a discontinuous control signal (or more rigorously, a set-valued control signal) that forces th ...

** Valve chatter, rapid opening and closing of a

pressure relief valve A relief valve or pressure relief valve (PRV) is a type of safety valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system; excessive pressure might otherwise build up and create a process upset, instrument or equipment failure, explosion, or f ...

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