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spooling

verb

Meaning

  1. To wind on a spool or spools.
  2. To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
  3. The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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