0 an imaginary little creature that gets inside things, especially machines, and makes them stop working:
1 an imaginary creature that gets inside things, esp. machines, and causes problems
So, we have to posit flying gremlins that never alight and that make the noise in another way.
We should observe little gremlin footprints.
The mechanisms of causalgia were instructive, he believed, for they could serve as a physiological model for general mechanisms of neurosis, the gremlins, or demons, inside the body's servomechanism.
The ' gremlin ' that is said to have made a cam belt snap in an engine is an imaginative personification of an unexpected and unintended physical state.
Surely we have constructively exposed the gremlin in the drafting.
I should explain to you that there appears to be a gremlin in the system somewhere in the building.
The gremlins start off cuddly, but then they get water on them, and they become monsters.
I must make it clear that the gremlins seem to be mutually, or possibly, liberal.
