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outswap

verb

Etymology

From out- + swap.

  1. inherited from swāpan
  2. inherited from *swappian✻
  3. inherited from swappen — “to swap”
  4. prefixed as outswap — “out + swap”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of swap out.

    • Because a real-time process might idle for a considerable time waiting for an external event, a conventional operating system would outswap or outpage the process.

The neighborhood

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