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5 entries found for glitch.
glitch ( P ) Pronunciation Key (glch)
n.
A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer glitch; a navigational glitch; a glitch in the negotiations.
A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power.
Astronomy. A sudden change in the period of rotation of a neutron star.
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[Probably from Yiddish glitsh, a slip, lapse, from glitshn, to slip, from Middle High German glitschen, alteration of glten, to glide, from Old High German gltan. See ghel-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
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glitchy adj.
Word History: Although glitch seems a word that people would always have found useful, it is first recorded in English in 1962 in the writing of John Glenn: “Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch.’ ” Glenn then gives the technical sense of the word the astronauts had adopted: “Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current.” It is easy to see why the astronauts, who were engaged in a highly technical endeavor, might have generalized a term from electronics to cover other technical problems. Since then glitch has passed beyond technical use and now covers a wide variety of malfunctions and mishaps.
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