Spooling

1. See our print spooler dictionary definition for additional information about printer spooling.
2. When referring to computer programming or software programs, spooling refers to the process of putting instructions or something that needs to be done into memory or on storage until the program or computer is ready to execute those instructions.
3. See spool dictionary definition for additional related definitions.

Also see: Buffer, Printer definitions, Programming definitions, Spool