Talk:glitch

glitch
Rfd-redundant. Video game sense seems to be some kind of special case of first sense or an idiosyncratic usage, but I leave this to specialists in this context. DCDuring TALK 17:21, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Not sure. Look at the example sentences. Whether they are typical and reasonable I don't know, but if so it seems (for the noun) we can "perform a glitch", as though it's a technique or skill; for sense 1 we would say something like "cause a glitch". Same applies to the verb, where we have "glitch into" and glitching appears to be a deliberate process or action rather than a momentary tweak. Equinox 17:27, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


 * If we had citations of real usage in that sense, I could agree. I was hoping that someone could vouch for the usage. DCDuring TALK 14:50, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Did you even look? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22he%20glitched%22&sa=N&hl=en&tab=pw gives lots for just one form, http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22he+glitched+into%22&btnG=Search has really precise examples.  The old form of the word was used to reference a thing that malfunctioned, now is used to reference a person doing a specific action.  --Connel MacKenzie 02:20, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I hadn't look. I often leave senses outside my experience for someone else to cite. I thought we had some folks who like or know gaming terms. DCDuring TALK 11:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Kept, per Connel who has provided evidence. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:26, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Engineering definition too specific
The engineering definition given, which is "a signal which does not remain active for a full clock period," is too specific. In current usage (at least where I work in Toronto) a "glitch" can be any unexpected/unintended behaviour in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected/intended behaviour after a period of time. If a signal misbehaviour worsens over time or continues until the system is reset or powered off, it is called "instability" rather than "a glitch." The term "glitch" is not restricted to clocked, or even digital, signals; it applies to analog signals too. "Glitch" is an informal term which, by itself, conveys no information except that the phenomenon is unwanted and should be stopped. 2607:FEA8:3D1F:F592:64BE:1676:7079:BE24 01:31, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Additional citations
I found several older mentions of the term, though they weren't exactly natural uses (many of them had the word in quotes).


 * I have no idea what this one is saying.
 * Advertisement that appeared in a few works in 1955 (this is the earliest one on archive.org).
 * This is slightly different from our definition, but it gives the same etymology.
 * Issue 30 was a 2-parter, with this as the second part (according to page 4 they annually did an "Air Media Basics" issue).
 * Also includes an image. This work may be in public domain (I'm not 100% sure).
 * I'm pretty sure 2238-61 is an LCCN, but it doesn't seem to exist on the LOC website.
 * Issue 30 was a 2-parter, with this as the second part (according to page 4 they annually did an "Air Media Basics" issue).
 * Also includes an image. This work may be in public domain (I'm not 100% sure).
 * I'm pretty sure 2238-61 is an LCCN, but it doesn't seem to exist on the LOC website.
 * Also includes an image. This work may be in public domain (I'm not 100% sure).
 * I'm pretty sure 2238-61 is an LCCN, but it doesn't seem to exist on the LOC website.
 * I'm pretty sure 2238-61 is an LCCN, but it doesn't seem to exist on the LOC website.

Hopefully this is useful in some way. --Pokechu22 (talk) 21:30, 1 May 2021 (UTC)