glitch
pronunciation
How to pronounce glitch in British English:
UK [glɪtʃ]
How to pronounce glitch in American English:
US [ɡlɪtʃ]
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- Noun:
- a fault or defect in a system or machine
Word Origin
- glitch (n.)
- 1959, American English, possibly from Yiddish glitsh "a slip," from glitshn "to slip," from German glitschen, and related gleiten "to glide" (see glide (v.)). Perhaps directly from German. Apparently it began as technical jargon among radio and television engineers, but was popularized and given a broader meaning c. 1962 by the U.S. space program. All you get today is "glitch" wherever splicing occurs. "Glitch" is slang for the "momentary jiggle" that occurs at the editing point if the sync pulses don't match exactly in the splice. [Sponsor, Volume 13, June 20, 1959]
Example
- 1. Neither glitch could have been predicted .
- 2. You might be trying to operate mechanical equipment , but there 's a glitch .
- 3. ' Rare ' glitch affects users of apple 's new snow leopard operating system
- 4. Tang denied ever having made the claim , dismissing it as a communication glitch between him and his book 's publisher .
- 5. While washington has sweated through its partisan debates on budget balancing and economists have bickered over solutions to our low-growth and high-unemployment problems , the chinese boom of the past several decades has blasted ahead without a glitch .