spooler

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noun

A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.

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

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

nounspooler (plural spoolers)

plural spoolers

  1. businessA device or person that winds thread onto a spool.

    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 […]

    1998, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 1061
    1 more example

    She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]

    1981, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 11
  2. computingA 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.

Origin

Translations

Finnish taustatulostin, jonotusohjelma
  • taustatulostina computer program that queues data
  • jonotusohjelmaa computer program that queues data
Italian gestore code stampa
  • gestore code stampaa computer program that queues data
Māori pūpōkai
  • pūpōkaia computer program that queues data

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APA

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MLA

“spooler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spooler. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spooler,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spooler.

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