tamper

IPA: tˈæmpɝ

A person or thing that tamps.
A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
(rail transport) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.

(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
(intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
(dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
(obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
(obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
(US, CA, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.

Examples of "tamper" in Sentences

The core technology is called a tamper-resistant embedded controller TREC.
With hardware you can create what we call a tamper-resistant security module.
The radioactive material in a bomb is buried in a "tamper" - in these bombs, gold.
It comes with a large stick known as a tamper -- which is used to push the food you are blending into the blades -- and a separate container specifically designed for grinding grain.
In addition, the new chips offer a variety of industry-first features, including a tag tamper alarm, several privacy mode options, and password-protected data transfer or digital switch.
So there's interesting things that one does to counteract these by using analytics, privacy protecting analytics like these things called tamper resistance logs that record how the people inside the bank, for example, actually looked at records.
The tag tamper alarm is particularly useful in identifying when a label has been cut off a piece of apparel in a retail store changing room, or indicating when a tag has been removed from its original position for any simple seals for items such as containers or jewelry.