1. A variety of "power glitch" (see
glitch); momentary 0
voltage on the electrical mains.
2. Missing characters in typed input due to software
malfunction or system saturation (one cause of such behaviour
under
Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the
processor with spurious character interrupts; see
screamingtty).
3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those
occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple
(2001-02-22)