Pager

Definitions

1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
2. Acronym of Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, a monitoring system for earthquakes.
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3. 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.
4. Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
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5. One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

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Examples

“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 […]”

“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 'em”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“The PAGER team takes information from a “shake⟳ map”—which guesses how much shaking there will be at various distances and directions from the earthquake’s epicenter—and compares that with a map of local populations.”

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