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spawn

To launch another program from the current program. The child program is spawned from the parent program.

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spawn

1. the mass of eggs deposited by fish, amphibians, or molluscs

2. Botany the nontechnical name for mycelium

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spawn [spȯn]

(botany)

Mycelium used for initiating mushroom propagation.

(zoology)

The collection of eggs deposited by aquatic animals, such as fish.

To produce or deposit eggs or discharge sperm; applied to aquatic animals.

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(operating system)

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.