Flicker may refer to:

Animals

* Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus '' Colaptes'' ** Examples include: Andean flicker, Bermuda flicker (extinct), campo flicker, Chilean flicker, Fernandina's flicker, gilded flicker, and

northern flicker The northern flicker or common flicker (''Colaptes auratus'') is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker specie ...

Engineering and science

Flicker (light) In visual perception, flicker is a human-visible change in luminance of an illuminated surface or light source which can be due to fluctuations of the light source itself, or due to external causes such as due to rapid fluctuations in the voltage o ...

, a perceptible change in brightness of a light source * Flicker (screen), a darkness artifact that occurs on a video display not present in source material * Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum * Flickering, possible behavior of a complex dynamical system as it approaches a critical transition * Power-line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3

People

* Flicker (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname * Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band

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Popular culture

Books

* ''Flicker'' (novel), by Theodore Roszak

Fictional characters

* Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game '' Blazing Dragons'' * Flicker, a character in ''The Ice King of Oz'' and subsequent books by

Eric Shanower Eric James Shanower (born October 23, 1963) is an American cartoonist, best known for his ''List of Oz books, Oz'' novels and comics, and for the ongoing retelling of the Trojan War as ''Age of Bronze (comics), Age of Bronze''. Early life Eric S ...

Movies

* ''Flicker'' (film) (stylized as ''FLicKeR''), a 2008 Canadian film * '' The Flicker'', an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad

Music

* ''Flicker'', the sophomore album by Ayria * ''Flicker'' (album), the debut studio album by Niall Horan; also the name of the title track * "Flicker" (song), a song by Porter Robinson from the album ''Worlds'' * "Flicker", a song by Audio Adrenaline from the album '' Some Kind of Zombie'' * "Flicker", a song by Poppy from the album ''Zig'' *

Flicker Records Flicker Records is a Christian music record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded by members of Christian rock group Audio Adrenaline. The label mainly focuses on rock/pop rock artists, though it also created a subsidiary, Big Ho ...

, a record label belonging to Sony

Television

* "Flicker" (''American Horror Story''), seventh episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series ''American Horror Story''

Slang

* A

remote control A remote control, also known colloquially as a remote or clicker, is an consumer electronics, electronic device used to operate another device from a distance, usually wirelessly. In consumer electronics, a remote control can be used to operat ...

device (especially for televisions) * A flyswatter

Other uses

* Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by Bally * Flicker, a guitar

tremolo In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are multiple types of tremolo: a rapid repetition of a note, an alternation between two different notes, or a variation in volume. Tremolos may be either ''measured'' ...

made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s * USS ''Flicker'', several ships of the United States Navy