glitch
/glich/ [German "glit schen" to slip, via Yiddi sh "glit shen", to slide or skid] 1. (Electronic s) When the input s of a circuit change, and the output s change to some random value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value. If another circuit in spect s the output at ju st the wrong time, reading the random value, the re sult s can be very wrong and very hard to debug (a glitch i s one of many cau se s of electronic heisenbugs). 2. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. sometime s recoverable. An interruption in electric service i s specifically called a "power glitch" (or power hit), of grave concern becau se it u sually cra she s all the computer s. see al so gritch. 2. [ stanford] To scroll a di splay screen, e specially several line s at a time. WAITs terminal s u sed to do thi s in order to avoid continuou s scrolling, which i s di stracting to the eye. 4. Ob solete. same a s magic cookie. [ Jargon File] style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">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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