glitch Quick reference
Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (3 ed.)
...glitch [1960s] Although nowadays a glitch can be any kind of hitch or snag, the word was originally used by US electronic engineers in the 1960s to mean ‘a sudden surge of electrical current’. Astronauts began using the word to talk about any sudden malfunction of equipment. As with so many informal words, its origin is...
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A Dictionary of Computer Science (7 ed.)
... An intermittent transient fault that occurs when two communicating asynchronous processes fail to complete their hardware interface protocol . It is usually caused by a flip-flop in a metastable...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy (3 ed.)
... An abrupt disturbance in the regular train of pulses from a pulsar, appearing as a sudden decrease in the pulsar’s period (i.e. a speed-up in rotation), accompanied by an increase of the spin-down rate which gradually returns to its former value over a few weeks or months. Glitches tend to occur in younger pulsars whose rate of spin is slowing rapidly, notably the Crab Pulsar and Vela Pulsar. They are believed to be caused by the sudden release of stress energy either in the crust (a starquake ) or between the crust and the superfluid interior....
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • bewitch , bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, glitch, hitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch • Redditch • Greenwich • eldritch • ostrich • backstitch • hemstitch • topstitch • Shostakovich • tsarevich • Sandwich • dipswitch ,...
glitch noun Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (2 ed.)
... noun A sudden brief irregularity or malfunction (of equipment, etc., esp. orig in a spacecraft); also, something causing this. 1962 –. Product Engineering It generated digital transients that caused the abort guidance to send false signals. Phillips said it took an inordinately long time to find this glitch ( 1969 ). [Origin...
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Green's Dictionary of Slang
... n. [Ger. glitschen , to slip, via Yid. glitshen , to slide or skid; orig. mainframe computer jargon glitch , ‘a sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function’ ( New Hacker's Dict. , 1992 ). This was adopted c. 1960 by astronauts, who gave it the more general definition, and it moved into mainstream sl. with the spread of the personal computer culture] a hitch, a snag, a malfunction. 1962 J. Glenn in Into Orbit 86: Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch’. Literally, a glitch is...
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