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▪ I. glitch, v. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Brit. |glɪtʃ|, U.S. |glɪtʃ|
[Apparently ‹glitch n.]
intr. To experience a glitch, setback, or malfunction; to go wrong. Also occas. trans.: to cause (something) to experience a glitch.
1962Washington Post 14 Oct. 1/1 We've gone almost 55 hours..and we haven't glitched (met unexpected problems) yet. 1975A. Price Our Man in Camelot iv. 73 If it glitched a dirty job, then that too would be disastrous. 1991Times Educ. Suppl. 11 Jan. 38/2 Her job involves teaching computer software to clients.., or trouble-shooting when systems glitch. 2000Detroit News (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Metro section) 1 c, Something glitched and that deal fell through.
Derivatives. glitching n.
1973Herald (Des Plaines, Illinois) 2 July i. 4 (headline) Model plane builders exhibiting at Woodfield. No ‘*glitching’ is tolerated by these flyers. 2006Electronic Gaming Monthly (Nexis) July You still see a little glitching going on. Hopefully we should be able to fix all of that.
▪ II. glitch slang.|glɪtʃ|
[Etym. unknown.]
a. A surge of current or a spurious electrical signal (see quots.); also, in extended use, a sudden short-lived irregularity in behaviour.
b. Astronauts' slang. A hitch or snag; a malfunction.
1962J. Glenn in Into Orbit 86 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... A glitch..is such a minute change in voltage that no fuse could protect against it. Ibid. 245 Glitch, a momentary change in voltage in an electrical circuit; (slang—a hitch). 1962R. F. Graf Mod. Dict. Electronics (1963) 124 Glitch, low-frequency interference in a television picture. It is seen as a narrow bar moving vertically. 1969Product Engineering 27 Jan. 15/3 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. 1969Funk & Wagnalls Dict. Electronics 70 Glitch, a stray current or signal, usually one that interferes in some way with the functioning of a system. 1969Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 1/3 [Apollo moon flight] Thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window after we were in the clouds, and I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning. 1971Nature: Physical Sci. 14 June 146/2 Two pulsars have exhibited a sudden increase in frequency (glitch), after which the usual slowing down has been resumed. |