spooling

English

Verb

spooling

1. present participle and gerund of spool

Noun

spooling (plural spoolings)

1. (computing) The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.
   • 1998, Ashish Gupta, Oded Shmueli, Jennifer Widom, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Very Large Databases:

     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.

Anagrams

• loopings, poolings