pager

Meanings

1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
2. 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.
3. Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
4. One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

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

Etymology

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).