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Drop-Outs
  • n. A variety of `power glitch' (see glitch); momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains.
  • Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system saturation (one cause of such behavior under UNIX when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty).
  • Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.