Usually means: Temporary malfunction in digital systems.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word glitch:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. glitch: Merriam-Webster
  2. glitch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glitch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glitch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glitch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glitch, glitch: Wordnik
  7. glitch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glitch: Wiktionary
  9. glitch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glitch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glitch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. glitch: Dictionary.com
  13. glitch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glitch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GLitcH, Glitch (TV series), Glitch (The Outer Limits), Glitch (album), Glitch (astronomy), Glitch (character), Glitch (company), Glitch (disambiguation), Glitch (game), Glitch (music), Glitch (video game), Glitch, Glitch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. glitch: Rhymezone
  17. glitch: FreeDictionary.org
  18. glitch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. glitch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. glitch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. glitch: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. glitch: Netlingo
  3. glitch: CCI Computer
  4. glitch: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. glitch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GLITCH: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glitch: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glitch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. glitch: ESL Slang page

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glitch: Bay Area Video Preservation

(Note: See glitching as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A problem affecting function.
noun:  (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
noun:  (video games) A bug or an exploit.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
verb:  (intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
verb:  (intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

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