Meaning

4 senses
  1. A person who collates.

  2. A program or algorithm that collates.

  3. (historical)A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.

  4. A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From collate + -or.

From collate + -or.

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Forms

plural: collators
Singularcollator
Pluralcollators

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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