Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hot spare

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

Syllables: hot s-pare
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although not being actively used, allowing it to be immediately brought online as a replacement should a piece of equipment fail while in active use.

Example Sentences

"In addition to the six hard drives making up the primary RAID array, the server has three hot spares ready to automatically take over for any failed drives in the array."

Inflected Forms

hot spares (plural)

Questions

What does hot spare mean?: A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although not being actively used, allowing it to be immediately brought online as a replacement should a piece of equipment fail while in active use.

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