GLITCH

Glitch

A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot. 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.

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glitch

Noun

  1. A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
    They are still trying to work out all the glitches.
  2. A bug or an exploit.
    Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
  3. A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.

Verb

  1. To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
    My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  2. To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
    His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.


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