spike
<jargon>
To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result. The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved. In programming environments it normally refers to a temporary change, usually for testing purposes (as opposed to a permanent change, which would be called hard-coded).
Last updated: 1999-10-18
Nearby terms:
SPID ♦ spider ♦ Spiderweb ♦ spiffy ♦ spike ♦ spill ♦ spim ♦ spin ♦ spin control
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