Look up: glitch

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   glitch
   A momentary hiccup in the picture or sound. Not as severe as corruption, and may not even be that noticeable.
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   Glitch
   Describes an unwanted short term corruption of a signal, or the unexplained, short term malfunction of a piece of equipment. For example, an inexplicable click on a DAT tape would be termed a glitch.
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   glitch
   /glich/ [German 'glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish 'glitshen', to slide or skid] 1. (Electronics) When the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs change to some random value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value. If another circuit inspects the output at just the wrong time, reading the random value, the results ...
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   glitch
   an unwanted transient superimposed on the output of a digital-to-analogue converter Category: Electrical engineering and energy • A pulse or burst of noise.A small pulse of noise is called a snivitz.The word glitch is sometimes reserved for the more annoying types of noise pulses which cause crashes and failures. Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Glitch
   A `glitch` (also known as `bug`) is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature. The term derives from the German `glitschig,` meaning 'slippery.'
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   glitch
   (from the article `star`) Modern observations have recorded sudden changes in the rotation rates of pulsars. The Vela pulsar, for instance, has abruptly increased its spin ...
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   Glitch
   A sharp increase/decrease and then immediate restoration of electrical power, often times causing devices to trip off.
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   Glitch
   A sharp increase/decrease and then immediate restoration of electrical power, often times causing devices to trip off.
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   glitch
   A sudden change in a pulsar’s period and spin-down rate believed to be caused by a starquake – the abrupt release of stress energy either in the crust of the star or between the crust and the superfluid interior. Glitches tend to occur in young pulsars, such as the Crab pulsar and Vela pulsar,...
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