Associations to the word «Pager»

Wiktionary

PAGER, noun. A device for receiving alpha-numeric messages
PAGER, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

PAGER, noun. An electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky