glitch
a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
Computers. any error, malfunction, or problem.: Compare bug1 (def. 4).
a brief or sudden interruption or surge in voltage in an electric circuit.
to cause a glitch in: an accident that glitched our plans.
Origin of glitch
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How to use glitch in a sentence
A pair of software glitches stopped it from reaching the ISS during an uncrewed test flight last year, but the company hopes to try again next year.
SpaceX and NASA officially flew people into space. What’s next? | Charlie Wood | November 18, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn his statement on Tuesday, Matze acknowledged that the service’s growth had “strained” the site’s capacity and caused “some glitches and delays.”
What my day on conservative social network Parler was like | Danielle Abril | November 12, 2020 | FortuneIronically, it's now Republicans casting around for some glitch or error that could switch more than 20,000 votes, and with them the state.
The Trailer: The 10 crucial counties, revisited | David Weigel | November 10, 2020 | Washington PostThere was some confusion on social media Wednesday when a technical glitch on Edison Research’s data feed briefly showed 98 percent of the vote was counted in Arizona rather than 86 percent.
Who won Arizona? Why the call still differs by media organization. | Elahe Izadi | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostGwinnett County, which has Georgia’s second largest population, election officials also struggled with a glitch that was tying up the processing of as many as 80,000 mail-in ballots.
When will the remaining battleground states report their results? | Claire Zillman, reporter | November 4, 2020 | Fortune
So I turned to an internet forum to get some new ideas about how to spice things up for my new glitched life in GTA V.
But in the world of grand theft auto, I spent my glitched cash on more lethal goods and services.
British Dictionary definitions for glitch
/ (ɡlɪtʃ) /
a sudden instance of malfunctioning or irregularity in an electronic system
a change in the rotation rate of a pulsar
Origin of glitch
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