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glitch
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Word definitions for glitch in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
glitch \glitch\ n. A fault or defect in a system, plan, or machine. Syn: bug. (Elect.) A brief surge or interruption in the voltage in an electrical circuit or device.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A glitch in the system shut down telephone service to nearly 6 million customers. ▪ As the glitches are found and corrected, the process is speeding up. ▪ Company records were lost due to a computer glitch . ▪ NASA officials ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. Glitch may also refer to: Glitch (video game) , a defunct online massively-multiplayer game Glitch (music) , a genre of electronic music that formed in the late 1990s Glitch (astronomy) , a sudden increase in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1962, American English, possibly from Yiddish glitsh "a slip," from glitshn "to slip," from German glitschen , and related gleiten "to glide" (see glide ). Perhaps directly from German; it began as technical jargon in the argot of electronic hardware engineers, ...
Usage examples of glitch.
To have got to this point only to be blocked by some kind of glitch was the kind of irony that only a truly badass god would practice.
The more people inbreed, the more they up their chances for genetic glitches.
About how the launch happened to explode, and how the puter came to be glitched.
If Tolliver had indeed gone glitched, only Lieutenant Bien, Sleak and the drill sergeants were around to stop him.
Lephamaster too quickly, or because there had been a glitch in the system and his people had forgotten he was here, or because this poor Earth had been an insignificant operation to begin with, or because he had gone mad having been left here too long, or perhaps, pathetically, the unie had been contaminated by human contact, or maybe, simply, just because of the normal alien viewpoint, humanity was getting Help From Outside.
A small console with two holographic panes was provided in case anything glitched the AS pilot and he needed manual control.
During a normal timetable, we would execute periapsis burn for Earth encounter thirty minutes later, at eighteen-thirty, but for this mission we will have a minor glitch in the targeting computer, causing a disagreement in the primary AI interface.
Was this a measure of how stressless this planet usually was, that the head of the World Council could ask the universe for outside help because of such a minor glitch?
As dark as a shadow, with that cocoa skin and that gunmetal uniform, Sisko seemed hardly more than a human yawn, unplagued by the glitches that teased Kira until she wanted to kick something.
The cyberspheres on Anshun, Belembe, Martaban, Balkash, and Samar were already suffering huge glitches and area crashes.
The next week we found seven more glitches, two of them involving the navigation system.
He's been glitching the hospital circuits fit to drive the electrician and a high-priced consultant barmy.
With corporate calm and erectness the publicity boy steered Gwyn past this bejeaned embarrassment, this tank-topped glitch.
It seemed like there wasn’t a system on board that hadn’t suffered from some kind of glitch since they boosted out of Lalonde’s orbit.
But I keep hittin’ software glitches, ROM blocs, clapes I just couldn’t grok!