hammer: the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway&qu [..]

The act of trying repeatedly to connect to an unavailable FTP server with little or no time between connection attempts. It can be compared to repeatedly hitting the "redial" button on a tel [..]

(n) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

in relation to chain is a cold metal forging process used to create texture on the surface of individual links to add texture and additional light catching surfaces.

Hammering refers to the automated processes of repeatedly trying to connect to different types of servers such as email, file transfer, etc., which are unavailable or busy with other tasks. Hammering [..]