swapping

Definitions

Computing

• noun an activity in which program data is moved from main memory to disk, while another program is loaded or run.

Electronics

• The transfer of a program, parts of a program, or data, from a hard drive to RAM and vice versa during a swap (1). In the context of virtual memory, such moves are also called paging (1).
• The exchanging of one thing for another, as occurs, for instance, in hot swapping.

Travel

• noun the act of exchanging one thing for another

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Contexts for “swapping”

4 definitions in context
• Computing
• Electronics
• Travel