Warm Boot
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A restart that happens without a full cold start of the whole environment. In engineering slang, warm boots are often preferred when you want to recover quickly while preserving some useful state.
In plain English: A restart that is quicker and less complete than a full cold reboot.
Example: "The service recovered with a warm boot, which cleared the bad process state without forcing every cache to rebuild from scratch."