Usually means: Replace components without powering down.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot-swap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Hot-Swap, hot-swap: Wordnik
  3. hot-swap, hot swap: Wiktionary
  4. Hot swap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot swap: CCI Computer
  2. Karbo's Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hot-swap, hot swap: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hot Swap, The Hot Swap: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hot swap)

▸ verb:  (computing) To remove or replace a component while the computer is still running.

Similar:
hot-swap, swap out, swap in, hotplug, fail over, hack, splice, shunt, cold boot, sync, more...

Opposite:
cold swap, offline swap, shutdown swap

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Similar:
hot-swap, swap out, swap in, hotplug, fail over, hack, splice, shunt, cold boot, sync, more...

Opposite:
cold swap, offline swap, shutdown swap



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