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hot patching

hot patching is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about hot patching

What is hot patching the present participle and gerund of?
Hot patching is the present participle and gerund of hot patch.

Words near hot patching in the dictionary

  1. hot particle
  2. hot particles
  3. hot patch
  4. hot patched
  5. hot patches
  6. hot patching
  7. hot pencil
  8. hot pencils
  9. hot pepper
  10. hot peppers
  11. hot pie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot patching (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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