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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope