spawner

English

Etymology

spawn +‎ -er

Noun

spawner (plural spawners)

(fishing) A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn
(computing) A program which spawns objects or processes as needed
(video games) An object in a simulated game world that spawns further objects.
- 2006, Alice J. Robison, Inventing fun: videogame design as a writing process (page 77)
  […] 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" […]

Translations

female fish

Danish: hunfisk c
German: Rogener m, Rogner (de) m, Rogenfisch m
Icelandic: hrygna f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hunnfisk m

Nynorsk: hofisk m

Volapük: (♂♀) fit (vo), (♂) hifit (vo), (♀) jifit (vo), (♂♀ salmon) salm (vo), (♂ salmon) hisalm, (♀) jisalm

computer program that spawns

Anagrams

Pawsner, enwraps, pawners, respawn

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