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hot-swapping

hot-swapping is the present participle and gerund of hot-swap.

Meaning of hot-swap

Verb

hot-swap (third-person singular simple present hot-swaps, present participle hot-swapping, simple past and past participle hot-swapped)

  1. To change a part of something, typically a computer, while it is running.

Questions about hot-swapping

What is hot-swapping the present participle and gerund of?
Hot-swapping is the present participle and gerund of hot-swap.

Words near hot-swapping in the dictionary

  1. hot-steps
  2. hot-stopping
  3. hot-swap
  4. hot-swappable
  5. hot-swapped
  6. hot-swapping
  7. hot-swaps
  8. hot-takey
  9. hot-tempered
  10. hot-to-trot
  11. hot-trod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot-swapping (page history and authors); hot-swap (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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