HOT SWAPPING

Specialty Definition: HOT SWAPPING

Domain	Definition
Computing	Hot swapping The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software. [More detail?] (1997-03-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: Hot swapping

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Hot swapping is the ability to add or remove parts of a computer system without turning off the system. It requires more sophisticated software and hardware than plug-and-play.

Protocols that support hot swapping include USB, Firewire, and SATA. Protocols that don't support hot swapping include IDE.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hot swapping."

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Crosswords: HOT SWAPPING

Specialty definitions using "HOT SWAPPING": Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop ♦ High Performance Serial Bus. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HOT SWAPPING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hot swapping	2
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Anagrams: HOT SWAPPING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-o-p-p-s-t-w"
	-3 letters: appoints, apposing, hoppings, pawnshop, pshawing, shopping, stopping, swapping, swathing, swopping, tappings, toppings, township, whapping, whopping.
	-4 letters: agonist, appoint, gitanos, goatish, happing, hasping, hasting, hatpins, hopping, hosting, pashing, pasting, phasing, posting, sapping, shaping, shawing, shippon, showing, soaping, sopping, stopgap, stoping, stowing, tapping, tawsing, thawing, topping, topspin, townish, wapping, washing, wasting.
	-5 letters: ashing, gainst, giants.
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