drop-outs


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.