1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch)momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains.2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system saturation (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interruptssee {screaming tty}).3. Mental glitchesused as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats.See glitch, fried.[Jargon File](2001-02-22)