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hot-patch

hot-patch is the alternative form of hot patch.

Meaning of hot patch

Verb

hot patch (third-person singular simple present hot patches, present participle hot patching, simple past and past participle hot patched)

  1. To install a hot patch (of either sense).
    • Hot patching requires that the operating system be specifically designed or modified to allow running processes - potentially including those forming part of the core of the operating system itself - to be modified on-the-fly without crashing the system.

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Forms of hot-patch

third-person singular presenthot-patches
present participlehot-patching
past participlehot-patched
pasthot-patched

Questions about hot-patch

What is hot-patch the alternative form of?
Hot-patch is the alternative form of hot patch.

Words near hot-patch in the dictionary

  1. hot-mixes
  2. hot-mouthed
  3. hot-natured
  4. hot-panted
  5. hot-pantsed
  6. hot-patch
  7. hot-patched
  8. hot-patches
  9. hot-patching
  10. hot-plate
  11. hot-plates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot-patch (page history and authors); hot patch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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