spooler

English

Etymology

spool +‎ -er

Noun

spooler (plural spoolers)

1. (textiles) A device for winding thread onto a spool.
   • 1998, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 1061:

     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 […]

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

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

Translations

a computer programme that queues data

• Finnish: taustatulostin (print spooler), jonotusohjelma
• Italian: gestore code stampa m
• Maori: pūpōkai

Anagrams

• Loopers, loopers, poolers, respool