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collator

collator noun: a person who collates.

Noun

collator (plural collators)

  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.

collator meaning in Tamil

collator in Tamil

ஒப்புநோக்கி

Forms of collator

pluralcollators

Origin of collator

From collate + -or.

Words that rhyme with collator

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Questions about collator

What does collator mean?
Collator means a person who collates.
What is collator in Tamil?
Collator in Tamil is ஒப்புநோக்கி. See Collator meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is collator?
Collator is a noun.
What is the plural of collator?
The plural of collator is collators.

Words near collator in the dictionary

  1. collationing
  2. collations
  3. collatitious
  4. collatiue
  5. collative
  6. collator
  7. collators
  8. collats
  9. Collatz conjecture
  10. collaud
  11. collaude

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collator (page history and authors); collator (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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