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spools, 3rd person singular present; spooling, present participle; spooled, past tense; spooled, past participle;
  1. Send (data that is intended for printing or processing on a peripheral device) to an intermediate store
    • - users can set which folder they wish to spool files to
  1. (Spooler (software)) The Spooler was a systems software operating system package that provided spooling facilities for the IBM/370 running DOS/VS, DOS/VSE environment, and IBM/360 running DOS or retrofitted with modified DOS, such as TCSC's EDOS. ...
  2. (Spooling) In computer science, spooling refers to a process of transferring data by placing it in a temporary working area where another program may access it for processing at a later point in time. ...
  3. (spooler) A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later)
  4. (Spooler) A Reality process that stores and queues jobs before sending them to a printer or tape device.
  5. (Spooler) A device by which a computer can store data and feed it gradually to an external device, such as a printer, which is operating more slowly than the computer.
  6. (Spooler) A term referring to a specific productivity boosting software utility. A print spooler manages the print out function for the user and allows the user to regain control of their computer much faster than without. ...
  7. (Spooler) The services and files required to manage print jobs on a local or network computer.
  8. (Spooler) The space where printing data is held in a computer's memory or hard drive while queuing to a printing device.
  9. (spooler) A program, usually on a multiuser system, that queues print files for one or more printers and sends them to the printer one at a time. Sometimes called a print queue manager.
  10. (spooling) Process of accumulating printer output in a file while the printer is busy. The file is printed when the printer becomes free; a program does not have to wait for the slow printing process.
  11. (Spooling) A process in which files to be printed are placed temporarily on disk.
  12. (Spooling) Acronym for simultaneous peripheral operations on-line, spooling refers to putting jobs in a buffer, a special area in memory or on a disk where a device can access them when it is ready. Spooling is useful because devices access data at different rates. ...
  13. (Spooling) Sending a print job to a print queue, details ...
  14. (Spooling) Simultaneous peripheral operation online. Storing input data from low-speed devices temporarily on high-speed secondary storage units, which can be quickly accessed by the CPU. ...
  15. (Spooling) Temporarily storing information onto a hard drive (or even a remote drive) to return the control of a program to the user. It is often used in the background to feed data to a printer while the user continues to work.
  16. (Spooling) The act of selecting and starting the act of jumping to a location.
  17. (Spooling) The process of sending application output intended for a printer into a RAM or disk file temporarily. Spooling frees up an application quicker than sending output directly to a slow device.
  18. (spooling) Buffered relaying of information to output media, across multiple computers, if necessary.
  19. (spooling) Technique for scheduling input/output to or from slow peripherals intermittently so that the CPU, which is much faster, can perform as many tasks as possible.
  20. (spooling) The processing of files created by or intended for virtual readers, punches, and printers. The spool files can be sent from one virtual device to another, from one virtual machine to another, and to real devices. See virtual console spooling.
  21. Spooling is copying an RSS link into a podcast organizer or loader application to download later.
  22. The situation an angler finds themselves in after a fish has run out all of their line against the drag, leaving nothing but an empty spool.  This is possibly the most appropriate time for extensive Swearing (see also).
  23. You hooked into a fish so big, he took all your line.