spawner

English

Etymology

spawn +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspɔnɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspɔːnə/

Noun

spawner (plural spawners)

1. (fishing) A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn

   Synonyms: henfish, hen

2. (computing) A program which spawns objects or processes as needed
3. (video games) An object in a simulated game world that spawns further objects.
   • 2006, Alice J. Robison, Inventing fun: videogame design as a writing process, page 77:

     […] at this point, there are enemy birds that fly out of the pipe and attack the player's avatar. The pipes themselves are "enemy spawners" […]

Translations

female fish

• Danish: hunfisk c
• Dutch: kuiter (nl) f
• German: Rogener m, Rogner (de) m, Rogenfisch m
• Icelandic: hrygna f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hunnfisk m

  Nynorsk: hofisk m

• Volapük: (♂♀) fit (vo), (♂) hifit (vo), (♀) jifit (vo), (♂♀ salmon) salm (vo), (♂ salmon) hisalm, (♀) jisalm

computer program that spawns

Anagrams

• Pawsner, enwraps, pawners, repawns, respawn