DROP-OUTS


Meaning of DROP-OUTS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

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 behavior under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty ). 3. 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 .

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