What this term means?

[cyberdude]

I have read many times in magazines the term patch. After all what does it means?

Thanks

[vijay_7287]

PATCH is like a fix a loophole in any particular s/w

[yrana2002]

This can be a very long explanation & there may be a number of posts here.
For technical & specified information, visit this site:
Patch- Wikipedia

[phatratt]

patch means a program to fix a loophole(bug) in a software could be a game or o/s.Infact popular web server apache got's it name from A-Patchy since those r n d guys kept applying patches.