Tamper

v. meddle, interfere; tinker, fiddle; engage in secret or improper activities

Tamper can mean:A device used for tamping, commonly to prepare ground coffee beans to make espresso.A ballast tamper, a machine that tamps track ballast.In nuclear weapon design, either a shell surrounding the fission core and keeping the nuclear material assembled during the explosion for longer time, raising yield, or the outermost layer of a thermonuclear component.A tool with a long handle and a flat metal head, used in a "stomping" type motion to flatten ground, gravel or other type of materials, for gardening or landscaping tasks. See also Spud bar.To make unauthorised alterations to something. Products can be made tamper-evident to protect against tampering.Tamper detection: the autmoatic determination by a module that an attempt has been made to compromise the physical security.Tamper evidence: the external indication that an attempt has been made to compromise the physical security of a module. Tamper response: the automatic action taken by a module when a tamper attempt has been detected.Tamper tape: tape or sticker often logoed placed over a seem or screw to show physical security has been breached when tape is borken on the module.
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Noun
1. a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
(synonym) tamp, tamping bar
(hypernym) tool
(hyponym) stemmer
(derivation) tamp down, tamp, pack
Verb
1. play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
(synonym) fiddle, monkey
(hypernym) manipulate
2. intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"
(synonym) meddle
(hypernym) intervene, step in, interfere, interpose
(derivation) meddling, tampering

(v. i.)
To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
  

(v. i.)
To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
  

(v. i.)
To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
  

(n.)
One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
  

(n.)
An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
  

To interfere improperly or in violation of the law such as to tamper with a document. - (read more on Tamper)