spooling

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noun

The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.

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verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of spool
nounspooling (plural spoolings)

plural spoolings

  1. computingThe 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

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APA

spooling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spooling

MLA

“spooling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spooling. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spooling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spooling.

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