pager

Meaning

1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
2. 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.
3. (in-compounds) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
4. One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

Synonyms

beeper

bleeper

pocket bell

paging equipment

Translations

pager

📟

mensáfono

📟

busca

Piepser

buscapersonas

📟

Pager

bip

organiseur

τηλεειδοποιητής

بيجر

FME

Taschenpiepser

pagineur

cercapersonas

Pronounced as (IPA)

/peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).