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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Mark.  I assume it's just a transference from
its original meaning concerning sound.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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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