Spawn or spawning may refer to:
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Spawning
Spawn is the Egg cell, eggs and Spermatozoa, sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals. As a verb, ''to spawn'' refers to the process of freely releasing eggs and sperm into a body of water (fresh or marine); the physical act is ...
, the eggs and sperm of aquatic animals
Arts, entertainment and media
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Spawn (character)
Albert Francis "Al" Simmons, better known as Spawn, is a fictional antihero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published by American company Image Comics, as well as in a number of films, television series, and video game adaptati ...
, a fictional character in the comic series of the same name and in the associated franchise
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Spawn: Armageddon'', a 2003 video game based on the comic series for sixth-generation consoles
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Spawn: In the Demon's Hand'', a 1999 arcade game based on the comic series
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''Spawn'' (1997 film), a cinema adaptation of the comic series
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''Spawn'' (1999 video game), a video game for the Game Boy Color
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''Spawn'' (upcoming film), an upcoming American superhero film
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Spawn: Godslayer'', a spin-off comic series
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn'' (also known as ''Spawn: The Animated Series''), an American adult animation television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999
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''Spawn'' (novel), a 1983 horror novel by Shaun Hutson
* ''Spawn'', a 1993 album by
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* "Spawn Again", a song on the 1999 album ''
Neon Ballroom'' by Silverchair
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Spawn (Again): A Tribute to Silverchair'', a 2017 compilation album by various UNFD artists
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Spawning (video games)
Spawning in video games refers to the process by which entities, such as Player character, player characters, Non-player character, non-player characters, enemies or items, are generated and placed into the game world. Closely related concepts ...
, the in-game creation or re-creation of an entity
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Spawn (computing)
Spawn in computing refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process.
The current process may wait for the child to terminate or may continue to execute concurrent computing. Creating a new subprocess requires enough memory in whic ...
, a function that executes a child process
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SPAWN
Spawn or spawning may refer to:
* Spawning, the eggs and sperm of aquatic animals
Arts, entertainment and media
* Spawn (character), a fictional character in the comic series of the same name and in the associated franchise
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(Salmon Protection and Watershed Network), a project of the Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization
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Spawning bed, an installation used in fishery management to increase fish reproduction
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Spawning networks Spawning networks are a new class of programmable networks that automate the life cycle process for the creation, deployment, and management of network architecture. These networks represent a groundbreaking approach to the development of programm ...
, a type of computer network
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Respawn (disambiguation)
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