pager

plural pagers

1. communicationsA wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

   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

   2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem

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   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

   Synonyms: beeper

2. computingA 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 compoundsSomething (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.

   Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globe's 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

4. artsOne who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, a monitoring system for earthquakes.

   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.

   2013 September 24, Daniel Engber, “Major Quake in Pakistan: Two Reported Dead, Experts Guess Several Thousand More”, in Slate Magazine