warm boot

n. boot which is performed without interrupting the electrical current to the whole system

v. restart a computer without turning it off, boot a computer without interrupting the electrical current to the whole system

In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that loads an operating system.
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Synonym warm restart (def. #2) .

<operating system> A boot from power on, where the CPU and peripherals are already powered up (warm).
A warm boot might be performed after a software crash or a hardware reset.
Contrast cold boot. See also reboot.
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(1998-04-28)