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  1. monkey patchnoun

    A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcefully overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

  2. monkey patchverb

    To alter the behaviour of a program by forcefully overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

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  1. Monkey patch

    Monkey patching is a technique used to dynamically update the behavior of a piece of code at run-time. A monkey patch (also spelled monkey-patch, MonkeyPatch) is a way to extend or modify the runtime code of dynamic languages (e.g. Smalltalk, JavaScript, Objective-C, Ruby, Perl, Python, Groovy, etc.) without altering the original source code.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of monkey patch in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of monkey patch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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