Usually means: Replace components without powering down.
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  1. hot-swap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Hot-Swap, hot-swap: Wordnik
  3. hot-swap: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hot-swap)

▸ verb:  To change a part of something, typically a computer, while it is running.

Similar:
hot swap, swap out, hotplug, swap in, hack, fail over, splice, patch, shunt, monkey patch, more...

Opposite:
cold-swap, offline swap, shutdown swap

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Similar:
hot swap, swap out, hotplug, swap in, hack, fail over, splice, patch, shunt, monkey patch, more...

Opposite:
cold-swap, offline swap, shutdown swap



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