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jerk
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jerk [jərk]
(mechanics)
The rate of change of acceleration; it is the third derivative of position with respect to time.
A unit of rate of change of acceleration, equal to 1 foot (30.48 centimeters) per second squared per second.


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When you are jerking around on the Internet, playing video games, watching TV, add reading-and-writing, you are focusing your eyes through a tiny keyhole in your retina called the Fovea < Latin for Pit.
Yeasayer Juddering and jerking around the stage, in tank top and straggly moustache, singing in a frantic falsetto with his hands raised to the heavens, Chris Keating is part preacher, part inebriated janitor.
Her antics were the living proof that as human beings age they lose the ability to understand that jerking around on a dance floor like a poisoned prawn is not sexy, not amusing and not acceptable.
 
 
 
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