spooler

Etymology

spool + -er

noun

  1. (textiles) A device for winding 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
  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.

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