Definition of "chattering" []

• Present participle of chatter. (verb)
• A noise that chatters. (noun)
• Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition. (noun)

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• "The fall through leafy branches and the dizzy heights; the snakes that struck at me as I dodged and leaped away in chattering flight; the wild dogs that hunted me across the open spaces to the timber -- these were terrors concrete and actual, happenings and not imaginings, things of the living flesh and of sweat and blood."
• "Birds were chattering from the eaves, and she could hear the clip of the swallows 'beaks as they caught the last insects of the day."
• "The monkey mind has been too too prominant and after so long off, it's chattering is drowned out by the need to GET ON WITH IT!"