The word spawn can have several meanings:
- Biological spawning
- Spawn (computing)
- Spawn (comics), a fictional character in the comic series of the same name. Spawning is the production or depositing of large quantities of eggs in water Spawn is a function that loads and executes a new Child process in the Microsoft Windows line of Operating systems The current process Spawn is a fictional Comic book character created by Todd McFarlane.
- Spawn: Armageddon, a video game based on the comic series. Spawn Armageddon is a Video game released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube Video game consoles
- Spawn (film), a 1997 cinema adaptation of the comic series. Spawn is a Film adaptation of Todd McFarlane 's creator-owned Image comic book of the same name.
- Spawn 2 a new adaptation of the comic series in development. Spawn is a Film adaptation of Todd McFarlane 's creator-owned Image comic book of the same name.
- Spawn (TV series), an HBO television series.
- Spawn Godslayer, a spin-off comic series
- Spawn (album), an album by Rise Robots Rise
- Spawning (computer gaming)
- Spawning bed, an installation used in fishery management to increase fish reproduction
- Spawning networks, a type of computer network
Spawn Godslayer, created by Brian Holguin, is a comic book series published by Image Comics. Rise Robots Rise is an experimental Hip-hop band signed to TVT in the early 1990s and later to Fibre Productions. In computer and video games, spawning is the in-game creation of an entity such as a player character, a Non-player character (NPC or an item A spawning bed is an artificial bed constructed by wildlife professionals in order to improve the ability of desired game fish to reproduce Spawning networks are a new class of programmable networks that automate the Life cycle process for the creation deployment and management of Network architecture
Dictionary
spawn
-verb
- (intransitive) To deposit eggs in water, as fish.
- (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- (transitive) To produce (eggs) in great number.
- (transitive) To bring into being, especially in very large numbers.
- (transitive) To bring forth non-mammalian beings.
-noun
- The fertilized eggs of aquatic organisms
- offspring
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