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Definition: Glitch |
GlitchNoun1. A fault or defect in a system or machine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' slippery, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1. n. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a `power glitch' (also power hit), of grave concern because it usually crashes all the computers. In jargon, though, a hacker who got to the middle of a sentence and then forgot how he or she intended to complete it might say, "Sorry, I just glitched". 2. vi. To commit a glitch. See gritch. 3. vt. [Stanford] To scroll a display screen, esp. several lines at a time. {WAITS terminals used to do this in order to avoid continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye. 4. obs. Same as magic cookie, sense 2. All these uses of `glitch' derive from the specific technical meaning the term has in the electronic hardware world, where it is now techspeak. A glitch can occur when the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs change to some random value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value. If another circuit inspects the output at just the wrong time, reading the random value, the results can be very wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch is one of many causes of electronic heisenbugs). Source: Jargon File. |
Electrical Engineering | An unwanted transient superimposed on the output of a digital-to-analogue converter. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations.In electronics, a glitch is an electrical pulse of short duration that is usually the result of a fault or design error, particularly in a digital circuit. For example, many electronic components such as flip-flops are triggered by a pulse that must not be shorter than a specified minimum duration, otherwise the component may malfunction. A pulse shorter than the specified minimum is called a glitch. A related concept is the runt pulse, a pulse whose amplitude is smaller than the minimum level specified for correct operation, and a spike, a short pulse similar to glitch but often caused by ringing or crosstalk.
In music, glitch refers to a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. The genre is thus named after the use of digital artifacts and noise-like distortions, often very short, in place of traditional percussion or instruments. Glitch music is generally minimal and rhythmic and is sometimes considered a sub-genre of IDM. Popular software for creating glitch includes Cycling '74's MAX/MSP and Miller Smith Puckette's Pure Data.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glitch."
Synonym: GlitchSynonym: bug (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glitch |
| Specialty definitions using "glitch": brain fart ♦ frogging ♦ glork, gray code, gritch ♦ high memory area ♦ off the trolley ♦ scanno. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just another little glitch, Mr. Spaceley (Jetsons: The Movie; writing credit: Eric Luke) I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Glitch! (1988) | |
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Health | While the glitch in glucose metabolism has yet to be pinpointed, its results are known to be devastating. (references) | |
Business | Some of the current delays can be traced to a bug in some of the early Nokia WAP phones that Vodafone ordered and returned due to an initial glitch. (references) | |
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| "Glitch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glitch" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
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Beginning with "glitch": glitch-free, glitch-proof. | |
Ending with "glitch": pre-glitch. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "glitch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 故障 (breakdown), 小故障. (various references) | |
Danish | glitch, spids (peak, pointed, spiked, summit, tip). (various references) | |
Dutch | glitch. (various references) | |
Finnish | häiriöpiikki, häiriöjännitepiikki, ,häiriöpiikki. (various references) | |
French | signal déformé, rafale, pointe. (various references) | |
German | Spannungsspitze. (various references) | |
Greek | μικροβλάβη, μεταβασματικός ρύπος, παραμόρφωση σήματος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hiba (error, failure, mistake, blemish, bloomer, demerit, fault, flaw, shortcoming). (various references) | |
Italian | disturbo (trouble, disturbance). (various references) | |
Korean | 고장 (Breakdown). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pico (peak, summit). (various references) | |
Russian | глитч, проблема (problem). (various references) | |
Spanish | señal de deformación. (various references) | |
Swedish | glitch. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glitch": glitches, glitchy. (additional references) | |
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"Glitch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galach, Giech, gitch, glatt, Gleich, Gletsch, glic, glich, glitche, glith, glitsh, Glynch, gointuh, guitsch, Gullich, Ilyitch, litch, lytch, slitch, Uglitch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glitch" (pronounced gli"kh) |
| 3 | -l i" kh | lich. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: licht, light. | |
-2 letters: chit, clit, gilt, hilt, itch, lich. | |
-3 letters: chi, cig, ghi, git, hic, hit, ich, lit, tic, til. | |
-4 letters: hi, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: glitchy. | |
+2 letters: chitling, clothing, glitches, latching, letching, lichting, taiglach, teiglach. | |
+3 letters: backlight, blotching, chelating, chitlings, chortling, clothings, clutching, fletching, flitching, gemutlich, hatchling, jacklight, lethargic, lightface, nightclub, theologic, trachling, vetchling. | |
+4 letters: arthralgic, backlights, beclothing, claughting, ethnologic, fetchingly, fletchings, gothically, hatcheling, hatchlings, histologic, jacklights, lightfaced, lightfaces, lithologic, megalithic, mythologic, nightclubs, pathologic, phlegmatic, phlogistic, reclothing, scathingly, splotching, theurgical, torchlight, touchingly, trauchling, trichology, triglyphic, unclothing, unlatching, vetchlings. | |
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