GR translation: in short bursts or jangles/the light jangling this way

[Mark Kohut]

It seems that Lord Kelvin had (or created) a light-related definition of
"jangle".

It is in this book on page 178, in one place, where what happens to the
light spectrum is explained.

More searching in Google Books may lead to other
examples of uses.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ML0KAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Baron+William+Thomson+Kelvin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKp6WYqNPNAhVm6oMKHchmAmIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V137.5-15, P139.19-30   In recent days, at certain hours, a round
> white light, quite intense, has gone sliding along and down in a
> straight line through the air. Here, suddenly, it appears again, its
> course linear as always, right to left. But this time it isn’t
> constant—instead it lights up brilliantly in short bursts or jangles.
> The apparition, this time, is taken by those present as a
> warning—something wrong, drastically wrong, with the day . . . . No
> one knew what the round light signified. A commission had been
> appointed, an investigation under way, the answer tantalizingly close—
> but now the light’s behavior has changed . . . . The assembly
> adjourns. On seeing the light jangling this way, you begin to wait for
> something terrible—not exactly an air raid but something close to
> that.
>
> What does "jangle" mean here?
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