Etymological
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glitch (n.)
by 1953, said to have been in use in radio broadcast jargon since early 1940s, American English, possibly from Yiddish glitsh “a slip,” from glitshn “to slip,” from German glitschen, and related gleiten “to glide” (see glide (v.)). Perhaps directly from German. Apparently it began as technical jargon among radio and television engineers, but was popularized and given a broader meaning c. 1962 by the U.S. space program.
No more a-c power line “glitches” (horizontal-bar interference)because camera filaments are operated from a separate d-c source. [RCA ad for the TK-11A studio television camera in Broadcasting Telecasting magazine, Jan. 12, 1953]
All you get today is “glitch” wherever splicing occurs. “Glitch” is slang for the “momentary jiggle” that occurs at the editing point if the sync pulses don’t match exactly in the splice. [Sponsor, Volume 13, June 20, 1959]
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Edit point?
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edit (v.)
1791, “to publish,” perhaps a back-formation from editor, or from French éditer (itself a back-formation from édition) or from Latin editus, past participle of edere “give out, put out, publish” (see edition). Meaning “to supervise for publication” is from 1793. Meaning “make revisions to a manuscript, etc.,” is from 1885. Related: Edited; editing. As a noun, by 1960, “an act of editing.”
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make revisions to a manuscript, etc.,” ?
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At least I know what glitch means now.
I had heard it was from the early computer techs about ENIAC, and it was an acronym for "gremlins lurking in the computer hardware."