# Flicker

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**Flicker** may refer to:

## Animals

- Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus *[Colaptes](/source/Colaptes)* - Examples include: [Andean flicker](/source/Andean_flicker), [Bermuda flicker](/source/Bermuda_flicker) (extinct), [campo flicker](/source/Campo_flicker), [Chilean flicker](/source/Chilean_flicker), [Fernandina's flicker](/source/Fernandina's_flicker), [gilded flicker](/source/Gilded_flicker), and [northern flicker](/source/Northern_flicker)

## Engineering and science

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

## People

- [Flicker (surname)](/source/Flicker_(surname)), includes a list of notable people with the surname
- Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band [Manic Street Preachers](/source/Manic_Street_Preachers)

## Popular culture

### Books

- [*Flicker* (novel)](/source/Flicker_(novel)), by Theodore Roszak

### Fictional characters

- Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game *[Blazing Dragons](/source/Blazing_Dragons)*
- Flicker, a character in *The Ice King of Oz* and subsequent books by [Eric Shanower](/source/Eric_Shanower)

### Movies

- [*Flicker* (film)](/source/Flicker_(film)) (stylized as *FLicKeR*), a 2008 Canadian film
- *[The Flicker](/source/The_Flicker)*, an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad

### Music

- *Flicker*, the sophomore album by [Ayria](/source/Ayria)
- [*Flicker* (album)](/source/Flicker_(album)), the debut studio album by Niall Horan; also the name of the title track
- ["Flicker" (song)](/source/Flicker_(song)), a song by Porter Robinson from the album *Worlds*
- "Flicker", a song by Audio Adrenaline from the album *[Some Kind of Zombie](/source/Some_Kind_of_Zombie)*
- "Flicker", a song by Itzy from the EP [*Tunnel Vision*](/source/Tunnel_Vision_(EP))
- "Flicker", a song by Poppy from the album [*Zig*](/source/Zig_(album))
- [Flicker Records](/source/Flicker_Records), a record label belonging to Sony

### Television

- ["Flicker" (*American Horror Story*)](/source/Flicker_(American_Horror_Story)), seventh episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series *American Horror Story*

## Slang

- A [remote control](/source/Remote_control) device (especially for televisions)
- A [flyswatter](/source/Flyswatter)

## Other uses

- Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by [Bally](/source/Bally_Technologies)
- Flicker, a guitar [tremolo](/source/Tremolo) made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s
- [USS *Flicker*](/source/USS_Flicker), several ships of the United States Navy

## See also

- [Flecker](/source/Flecker), a surname
- [Flick (disambiguation)](/source/Flick_(disambiguation))
- *[Flicka](/source/Flicka)*, a 2006 film based on the book *My Friend Flicka*
- [Flickr](/source/Flickr), a digital photo sharing website and service

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