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