ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Spooler

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Spooler is a noun meaning (textiles) A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.

Meaning

(textiles) A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.

More Meanings

  1. (computing) A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later).

Example Sentences

The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.
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 […]
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 […]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include trailer, cola, queue, tail, queueing, queuing.

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