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spooling

spooling is the present participle and gerund of spool.

Meaning of spool

Verb

spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)

  1. To wind on a spool or spools.
  2. To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).

See all 7 meanings of spool

Noun

spooling (plural spoolings)

  1. The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.
    • Hence, if a query is parallelized correctly it can benefit also from parallel I/O facilities and from the increased database cache that can reduce disk spoolings.1998, Ashish Gupta, Oded Shmueli, Jennifer Widom, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Very Large Databases

Forms of spooling

pluralspoolings

Phrases with spooling

Questions about spooling

What does spooling mean?
Spooling means the operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.
What is spooling the present participle and gerund of?
Spooling is the present participle and gerund of spool.
What part of speech is spooling?
Spooling is a noun.
What is the plural of spooling?
The plural of spooling is spoolings.

Words near spooling in the dictionary

  1. spoolfuls
  2. spoolie
  3. spoolie brush
  4. spoolie brushes
  5. spoolies
  6. spooling
  7. spooling down
  8. spooling out
  9. spooling up
  10. spoolings
  11. spoolless

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