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glitch
English
Etymology
Probably from Yiddish ?????? (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, to slide, to skid”).
Popularized 1960s, by US space program. Attested 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)
- (countable) A problem affecting function.
- Synonyms: bug, hitch, imperfection, quirk, gremlin
- (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
- Coordinate terms: surge, spike, instability
- (video games) A bug or an exploit.
- (uncountable, music) 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.
- Hypernym: electronic music
- Hyponym: glitchcore
- Coordinate term: noise
- 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop, Soft Skull Press (?ISBN), page 313:
- 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.
- (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
Derived terms
- glitchcore
- glitchy
Translations
Verb
glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)
- (intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
- (intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
Further reading
- glitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- glitch (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
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clitch
English
Verb
clitch (third-person singular simple present clitches, present participle clitching, simple past and past participle clitched)
- Alternative form of clutch
Noun
clitch (plural clitches)
- Alternative form of clutch
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