Dictionary

spooler en · NOUN

Etymology

From spool + -er.

Meanings

1. A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.
   • In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […] 1998, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 1061:
   • She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […] 1981, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 11:
2. A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later).
   • The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.

Forms

Translations (4)

it gestore code stampa (a computer program that queues data) · fi taustatulostin (a computer program that queues data) · fi jonotusohjelma (a computer program that queues data) · mi pūpōkai (a computer program that queues data)