Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spooling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

Syllables: spool-ing
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of spool

noun

The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

spoolings (plural)

Questions

What does spooling mean?: present participle and gerund of spool

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