glitch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
video-games
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.
Inflected forms:
form: glitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glitched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A problem affecting function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: They are still trying to work out all the glitches.
Glitches—a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.
A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Some claimed on Monday that Foodpanda's account deletion system reported being under maintenance and could not process their request. It is unclear if the flock of requests had created a system failure, or Foodpanda had cut access on purpose, or the timing was merely a coincidence. The glitch only added fuel to online sympathizers' outrage.
gloss: An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was "glitch." Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it. You have probably noticed a dimming of lights in your home when you turn a switch or start the dryer or the television set.
gloss: A bug or an exploit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
How to reach 8.555 ー The glitch
You need to have Wrex alive and sabotage the cure. Without the glitch, Wrex will discover the lie and try to kill you after Priority: Citadel II when you try to go back to the Normandy. Triggering this scene will remove Wrex and the Clan Urdnot in the war assets list
The glitch is easy, when you want to leave the Citadel, simply go to a fast travel shuttle, then in a DLC area (Dr. Bryson's Lab or Silversun Strip)
Then again the shuttle, and go back to the Normandy from here
gloss: A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You can hear this in the contemporary genre of ‘glitch’, where artists like Oval and Fennesz make radically beautiful music using the snaps, crackles and pops emitted by damaged CDs, malfunctioning software, etc.
gloss: A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
examples: My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
Jake’s parents, played unnervingly well by Colette and Thewlis, are like alien robots who have been programmed to behave like human beings, but keep glitching.
gloss: To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.
Derived words: glitch art
glitchcore
glitchery
glitchfest
glitch hop
glitch hunter
glitch in the Matrix
glitchless
glitch out
glitch text
glitchy
infinite money glitch
microglitch
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