Meaning & use
Spooler
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A device or computer program that temporarily stores data, such as print jobs, in a queue until it can be processed in order.
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The printer's spooler was jammed, so no documents could print.
In the textile mill, the spooler wound thread neatly onto bobbins.
A note on using this word
"Spool" originally referred to a cylindrical device for winding thread, and the computing sense borrows the same idea of queuing items in an orderly line.
Words with a similar meaning
queue manager
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