glitch
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4.7
- noun
- /ɡlɪtʃ/
- Specialized
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fallo
- However, if computer and/or other administrative glitches occur during exams, this can be problematic.
- technical glitches
- computer glitch
- fix a glitch
But there is one little glitch that you should have considered.
- But there is one little glitch that you should have considered.
- You'll see some glitches, but it may work.
- What happened this year was not just like a glitch in the matrix.
- So that software, just like any software in a computer, is prone to glitches and error messages.
- OK, having a word stuck on the tip of your tongue is a normal glitch in memory retrieval.
- OK, Watch the middle of the screen and see if you see the glitch.
- It was just sort of an ethical glitch that you felt like needed to.
- And sort of heightening this meta glitch surrealism thing.
- I I could still tell that there were not glitches, but like it wasn't perfect, but I was.
- But apart from that, I glitched like there was a glitch in the matrix and I was it.
Examples
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At first, she thought it was a glitch in the VR program.
Fiction book (2000) -
So apparently there was a glitch that people found in the iPhone, right?
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But there is one little glitch that you should have considered.
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I was told that the glitch was just limited to my computer.
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When I saw it though, I figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it after.
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The only glitch we had was on Thanksgiving.
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Last night there was a major software glitch that actually delayed the counting of all of the ballots.
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In any electronic system, glitches or features of a program may interfere with its ease of use.
Academic text (2013) -
There's one significant glitch that keeps shutting us down for hours at a time.
Fiction book (1995) -
The technician fixed a small glitch in the software that caused the printer to malfunction.
Synonyms
211
2.8
An error in a computer program that makes it not work correctly
69
3.2
A problem in a machine or system that makes it not work
4
2.8
A problem in a computer that makes it give wrong or unexpected results
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3.6
A problem in a computer program that makes it give wrong results
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Glitch probably comes from an old Yiddish or German word glitsh that means 'slip' or 'slide'. Think of a machine 'slipping' for a moment, and that small, sudden mistake is a glitch, which is why we use the word for a brief fault in a system.