English

Noun

glitch ‎(plural glitches)

1. A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk

   They are still trying to work out all the glitches.

2. (video games) A bug or an exploit.

   Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.

3. (music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
4. (engineering) A signal which does not remain active for a full clock period.^[2]

Derived terms

• glitchcore

Quotations

• 1962, John Glenn^[1]

  Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current.

• 1965, Time magazine

  Glitches—a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.

Translations

Verb

glitch ‎(third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)

1. To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction

   My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.

2. (video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

   His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

References

1. 1 2 Moradi, Iman. (2004) Glitch Aesthetic
2. ↑ Microchip, "Application Notes", #1451-A, http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/01451A.pdf