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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>drop-outs</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="drop-ins.html" title="drop-ins"/><link rel="next" href="drugged.html" title="drugged"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">drop-outs</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="drop-ins.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drugged.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="drop-outs"/><dt xmlns="" id="drop-outs"><b>drop-outs</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A variety of <span class="firstterm">power glitch</span>
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(see <a href="../G/glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>); momentary 0 voltage on the electrical
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mains.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or
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system saturation (one cause of such behavior under Unix when a bad
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connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character
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interrupts; see <a href="../S/screaming-tty.html"><i class="glossterm">screaming tty</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when
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the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See
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<a href="../G/glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>, <a href="../F/fried.html"><i class="glossterm">fried</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-05-20"/><img src="../graphics/73-05-20.png"/><div class="caption"><p>A really serious case of <a href="drop-outs.html"><i class="glossterm">drop-outs</i></a>. </p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is <a href="../F/fascist.html#crunchly73-05-21">73-05-21</a>. The previous one is <a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html#crunchly73-05-19">73-05-19</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="drop-ins.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drugged.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">drop-ins </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> drugged</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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