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spawner

noun
/ˈspɔnɚ/US/ˈspɔːnə/UK

Etymology

From spawn + -er.

  1. derived from expandere — “stretch out; spread out”
  2. derived from espandre
  3. derived from espaundre
  4. inherited from spawnen
  5. formed as spawner — “spawn + -er”

Definitions

  1. A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn

  2. A program which spawns objects or processes as needed

  3. An object in a simulated game world that spawns further objects.

    • […] at this point, there are enemy birds that fly out of the pipe and attack the player's avatar. The pipes themselves are "enemy spawners" […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spawner. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA