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English Dictionary: spawn	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for spawn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spawn n the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v call forth Synonym(s): engender, breed, spawn lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spawn \Spawn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spawning}.] [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. expandere to spread out. See {Expand}.] 1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. 2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spawn \Spawn\, v. i. 1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. 2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spawn \Spawn\, n. [[root]170. See {Spawn}, v. t.] 1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals. 2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously. 3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems. 4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. {Spawn eater} (Zo[94]l.), a small American cyprinoid fish ({Notropis Hudsonius}) allied to the dace.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
spawn n.,vi. 1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create a child process from within a process. Technically this is a `fork'; the term `spawn' is a bit more general and is used for threads (lightweight processes) as well as traditional heavyweight processes. 2. In gaming, meant to indicate where (`spawn-point') and when a player comes to life (or `re-spawns') after being killed. Opposite of {frag}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
spawn To create a {child process} in a {multitasking} {operating system}. E.g. {Unix}'s {fork} {system call} or one of the spawn() library routines provided by most {MS-DOS}, {Novell NetWare} and {OS/2} {C} compilers - spawnl(), spawnle(), etc. (1995-03-28)