Definition of "spooling" []

• Present participle of spool. (verb)

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• "But what do you expect with a tropical storm with that name spooling up in the Caribbean and the track skirting on the edge of town?"
• "At that time, there was a process known as spooling, in which Page 1 was printed on a film paper to do away with the 'hazards' of cut and paste process."
• "Server is "spooling" an interim result set to a secondary location (tempdb) so that it can do something with that data later in the plan."