chroot
English
Etymology
From the name of the Unix command, short for "change root".
Verb
chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)
- (computing, Unix) To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
References
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Anagrams
- cohort, trocho-