"chroot" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: chroots [present, singular, third-person], chrooting [participle, present], chrooted [participle, past], chrooted [past]
Etymology: From the name of the Unix command, short for “change root”. Head templates: {{en-verb}} chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)
  1. (computing, Unix) To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc. Wikipedia link: chroot Tags: Unix Categories (topical): Computing

Inflected forms

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