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Soft patch
| a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast. |
See also: Patch soft patch
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. soft patchA quick fix to machine language currently in memory that only lasts for the current session.Soft Patch
Soft PatchA period of weak economic performance amid a longer strong performance. That is, a soft patch is mild slowdown between two periods of high economic growth. Central banks usually cut target interest rates during a soft patch to encourage a return to growth. The term is somewhat informal and usually used in the media and by the Federal Reserve. |