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spoolings

spoolings is the plural of spooling.

Meaning of spooling

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

Questions about spoolings

What is spoolings the plural of?
Spoolings is the plural of spooling.

Words near spoolings in the dictionary

  1. spoolies
  2. spooling
  3. spooling down
  4. spooling out
  5. spooling up
  6. spoolings
  7. spoolless
  8. spoollike
  9. spools
  10. spools down
  11. spools out

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