ALL meanings of beeper
beep·er
B b - countable noun beeper A beeper is a portable device that makes a beeping noise, usually to tell you to phone someone or to remind you to do something. 3
- noun beeper pager 3
- noun beeper Something that makes a beeping sound, especially a simple computer speaker. 1
- noun beeper a device that connects into a telephone circuit and transmits a periodic signal as an indication that the conversation over the circuit is being recorded. 1
- noun beeper a similar device attached to a free-ranging animal as an aid to learning its habits; biotelemeter. 1
- noun beeper Also called pager. a pocket-size electronic device whose signal notifies a person of an important message, sometimes displaying the telephone number to be called. 1
- noun beeper electronic gadget: pager 1
- noun Definition of beeper in Technology 1. (hardware, communications) (Or "beeper", "bleeper" (UK?)) 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 PDAs. If this trend continues, the distinction between PDAs and high-end pagers will disappear. 2. (tool) A program for viewing a text file a screenful at a time via a text terminal, as opposed to scrolling through it in a GUI window, or catting it all at once to the terminal. The best known pagers are more, less, pg and list.com. 1
- noun beeper A pager (device). 0