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soft patch

A quick fix to machine language currently in memory that only lasts for the current session.


soft patch [′sȯft ′pach]
(computer science)
A temporary change in a computer program's machine language that is carried out while the program is in memory, and thus prevails only for the duration of a single run of the program.
(engineering)
A patch in a crack in a vessel such as a steam boiler consisting of a soft material inserted in the crack and covered by a metal plate bolted or riveted to the vessel.


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But by the summer's end, it had come out of the soft patch and was fully in gear.
Proposition 8 reductions have been quite common on office buildings over the last couple of years, especially on the Westside, where the market hit a soft patch a couple of years ago," said Steve Buck, director of the tax division in the L.
According to Cary Sacks, Irwin's voice and president of Ideaology, the Marina del Rey advertising company that handles the campaign, the commercials ``had been running for something like five years, and when business hit just a slight soft patch, it was really time to change things.
 
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