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Jitter vs Glitch - What's the difference?

jitter | glitch |

As nouns the difference between jitter and glitch

is that jitter is a nervous action; a tic while glitch is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.

As verbs the difference between jitter and glitch

is that jitter is to be nervous while glitch is to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.

jitter

English

Etymology 1

Possibly alteration of

Noun

(en noun)
  • A nervous action; a tic.
  • A state of nervousness.
    • That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
    • It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.}}
  • (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
    • Related terms
    * jitterbug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be nervous.
    • Synonyms
    * fidget

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting.

    • Anagrams

    *

    glitch

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia glitch) (es)
  • A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
    • They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
  • (video games) A bug or an exploit.
    • Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * glitchcore

    Quotations

    * 1962 , (John Glenn) *: 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.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
    • My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  • (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.

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