6 definitions found
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["o]l.), a small American cyprinoid fish
({Notropis Hudsonius}) allied to the dace.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spawn
n : the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
v 1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {breed}]
2: emit spawn, of fish; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [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)
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