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 j USt the wrong time, reading the random value, the results can be very wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch is one of many ca USes of electronic heisenbugs). 2. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a "power glitch" (or power hit), of grave concern beca USe it USually crashes all the computers. See also gritch. 2. [Stanford] To scroll a display screen, especially several lines at a time. WAITS terminals USed to do this in order to avoid continuo US scrolling, which is distracting to the eye. 4. Obsolete. Same as magic cookie. [ Jargon File] In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ AI ] [ AIT ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ ash ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ b ] [ be ] [ br ] [ bs ] [ ca ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ circuit ] [ co ] [ com ] [ computer ] [ con ] [ cookie ] [ cr ] [ crash ] [ cu ] [ dd ] [ de ] [ deb ] [ ding ] [ display ] [ do ] [ down ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ electron ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ function ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ German ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ gritch ] [ h ] [ hang ] [ heisenbug ] [ hit ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ input ] [ int ] [ interrupt ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ ITS ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ line ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ magic ] [ magic cookie ] [ man ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ nf ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ np ] [ ns ] [ nu ] [ O ] [ om ] [ output ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ power hit ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ random ] [ rave ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ sc ] [ screen ] [ scroll ] [ scrolling ] [ se ] [ service ] [ set ] [ sh ] [ sk ] [ sl ] [ so ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ su ] [ T ] [ tc ] [ terminal ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tp ] [ tr ] [ tron ] [ TS ] [ tt ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ US ] [ va ] [ value ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ WAITS ] [ Y ] [ ye ]
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