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glitch
English
Etymology
Probably from Yiddish ?????? (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, to slide, to skid”).
Popularized 1960s, by US space program. Attested 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)
- (countable) A problem affecting function.
- Synonyms: bug, hitch, imperfection, quirk, gremlin
- (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
- Coordinate terms: surge, spike, instability
- (video games) A bug or an exploit.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
- Hypernym: electronic music
- Hyponym: glitchcore
- Coordinate term: noise
- 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop, Soft Skull Press (?ISBN), page 313:
- You can hear this in the contemporary genre of ‘glitch’, where artists like Oval and Fennesz make radically beautiful music using the snaps, crackles and pops emitted by damaged CDs, malfunctioning software, etc.
- (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
Derived terms
- glitchcore
- glitchy
Translations
Verb
glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)
- (intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
- (intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
Further reading
- glitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- glitch (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
glitch From the web:
- what glitch means
- what glitchtale character are you
- what glitchcon
- what glitches are in warzone
- what glitchtale soul are you
- what glitches are in cyberpunk 2077
- what glitches does the ps5 have
- what does glitch mean
distortion
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?t????n/
- Rhymes: -??(r)??n
Noun
distortion (countable and uncountable, plural distortions)
- An act of distorting.
- A result of distorting.
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
Synonyms
- deformation
- disfigurement
Related terms
- distort
Translations
distortion From the web:
- what distortion pedal should i get
- what distortion did dimebag use
- what distortion means
- what distortions are worse on goode's projection
- what distortion does slipknot use
- what distortion does slash use
- what distortions on a map are probable
- what distortion pedal should i buy
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