Twitch

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Twitch may refer to:

Physiology

• Muscle contraction and relaxation
  • Convulsion, rapid and repeated muscle contraction and relaxation, resulting in uncontrolled shaking
  • Fasciculation, a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction
  • Myoclonic twitch, a jerk usually caused by sudden muscle contractions
  • Myokymia, a continuous, involuntary muscle twitch that affects the muscles of the face, particularly the eyelids
  • Spasm, a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, group of muscles, hollow organ, or orifice
  • Tic, an involuntary, repetitive, nonrhythmic movement or vocalization of sudden onset and involving discrete muscle groups
  • Tremor, an involuntary, repetitive, somewhat rhythmic, muscle contraction and relaxation

Entertainment

• Twitch (film), a 2005 short film directed by Leah Meyerhoff
• Twitch, a 2000 short film featuring Paul Tassone
• Twitch (Ministry album), 1986
• Twitch (Aldo Nova album), 1985
• Twitch (EP), by Jebediah
• Twitch Film, a film website
• Twitch (website), a video streaming website
• Twitch (TV series), a video game themed television show which ran between 1995 and 1997
• Twitch gameplay, a computer or video game in which the player must react quickly
• Twitch, the Plague Rat, a playable champion character in the action real-time strategy video game League of Legends

Nicknames

• Stephen "tWitch" Boss, American dancer, finalist in the fourth season of the TV series So You Think You Can Dance
• Jeremy Stenberg (born 1981), American professional freestyle motocross rider
• Maximilian "Twitch" Williams, a fictional police officer in the comic series Sam and Twitch, a spinoff of Spawn

Other uses

• Twitch (device), a device used to restrain horses
• Twitch, in birdwatching, to pursue and observe a rare bird
• Elymus repens or twitch (British), a perennial grass

See also

• Twitches (disambiguation)

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