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drop-outs (1)A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary 0voltage on the electrical mains.drop-outs (2)Missing characters in typed input due to softwaremalfunction or system saturation (one cause of such behaviourunder Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps theprocessor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty).drop-outs (3)Mental glitches; used as a way of describing thoseoccasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a coupleof beats. See glitch, fried. |