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flag + waving
flag-waving (uncountable)
- Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
- (television) Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in a video signal.
1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.
1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.
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