pager
noun/peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Etymology From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).
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Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:
- I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
- more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73:
3
In compounds Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
- Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globes standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager' in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 309–310:
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Arts, Bookbinding, Crafts, Hobbies, Lifestyle One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
- Derived terms
- radiopager
- Related terms
- back-pager, eight-pager, one-pager