Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag.
- noun A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power.
- noun Astronomy A sudden change in the period of rotation of a neutron star.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fault or defect in a system, plan, or machine.
- noun (Elect.) A brief surge or interruption in the voltage in an electrical circuit or device.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
problem affectingfunction ; abug ; animperfection ; aquirk - noun video games A
bug or anexploit . - noun music A
genre ofexperimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use ofsonic artifacts that would normally be viewed asunwanted noise . - verb To experience an
intermittent ,unexpected ,malfunction - verb video games To perform an
exploit or recreate abug while playing a video game.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although the OED states that the etymology of "glitch" is unknown, it probably comes from the Yiddish glitsh
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In “Allison”, what in fact was happening – although the writers tried mightily to keep it ambiguous – was fairly obvious: her glitch from the car bomb caused her to crosslink her self-awareness with her memories of the woman she was modeled after, and then channel those memories through her human emulation mode.
Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction 2009
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The only glitch is that after you get your FM-3 you must enter Mexico within a certain time period.
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The only glitch is that after you get your FM-3 you must enter Mexico within a certain time period.
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My only glitch is that I also have a Mac, and while InfoSelect works just fine under VMWare, it would be nice to have a native Mac version.
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A computer glitch is the apparent cause of the commuter train wreck in D.C. The president talked about health care on ABC last night and got some tough questions.
Short Takes 2009
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Usually, news of the fault spreads like wildfire, and huge queues build up until the glitch is put right or the machine runs out of notes.
Phantom cash machine withdrawals can haunt consumers Miles Brignall 2010
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The only glitch is that after you get your FM-3 you must enter Mexico within a certain time period.
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The glitch is obviously ridiculous as a cover story, but I can't quite believe Amazon "caved in" to demands of some Focus in the Family type group either.
kateelliott: Amazon Rank kateelliott 2009
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The only glitch is that after you get your FM-3 you must enter Mexico within a certain time period.
madmouth commented on the word glitch
of Yiddish extraction (see more here)
April 23, 2009