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De - Pt| English Dictionary: pager | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for pager | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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pager 1. A small wireless receiver that, when triggered (generally via phone), will beep or vibrate (un)pleasantly. The wearer will have been trained to respond to this signal by looking at a small screen on the device for an unimportant message. In recent years, pagers have grown more complex, allowing for long {alphanumeric} messages to be received and scrolled though (as opposed to earlier models, which supported only short numeric messages); at the same time as pager functions are integrated into some {PDA}s. If this trend continues, the distinction between {PDA}s and high-end {pagers} will disappear. {Short Message Service} allows a mobile phone to display a message, just like an alphanumeric pager. 2. time via a text {terminal}, as opposed to scrolling through it in a {GUI} window, or {cat}ting it all at once to the terminal. The best known pagers are {more}, {less}, pg and list.com. (1997-09-11) | |
