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jammer

US/ˈd͡ʒæmɚ/

jammer noun: any device used to jam radio reception.

jammer: the top of a tower with multiple cell phones on it
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Noun (1)

jammer (plural jammers)

  1. Any device used to jam radio reception.
    • "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29
  2. A musician who jams.
  3. A device (e.g. a jumar) which will slide along a rope in one direction but not the other, used in rock-climbing, caving etc.
  4. (roller derby) A player who attempts to score points by making their way past other players.

Noun (2) capitalized: Jammer

Jammer (plural Jammers)

  1. A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed Animal Jam Classic).
    • A growing percentage of "Jammers" are visiting from international territories, and global growth of the Animal Jam property will be a strong focus for Smart Bomb Interactive in 2013.2013 March 19, “Smart Bomb Interactive Celebrates Record Growth”, in Business Wire, →OCLC
    • So come meet over 16 million Animal Jam players, or Jammers. […] Liza appears throughout this book to share her advice and tips with all Jammers.2014, Katherine Noll, “Welcome to Animal Jam!”, in Animal Jam: Official Insider’s Guide, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 5
    Synonyms:
    Animal Jammer

jammer meaning in Tamil

jammer in Tamil

குமையி

Examples of jammer in a sentence

  • This Wi-Fi jammer costs a cup of coffee.
  • Inviting and utilising experienced game jammers can be a critical success factor in game jams.
  • The career option of a professional game jammer will form in the future.

All 11 example sentences with jammer

Synonyms of jammer

Forms of jammer

pluraljammers
pluralJammers

Plural of jammer: jammers

Origin of jammer

From jam + -er.

Words formed from jammer

Words that rhyme with jammer

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about jammer

What does jammer mean?
Jammer means any device used to jam radio reception.
What is jammer in Tamil?
Jammer in Tamil is குமையி. See Jammer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jammer?
Jammer is a noun.
How do you pronounce jammer?
Jammer is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒæmɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of jammer?
The plural of jammer is jammers.

Words near jammer in the dictionary

  1. jammed
  2. jammed on the brakes
  3. jammed one's hype
  4. jammed out
  5. jammed up
  6. jammer
  7. jammers
  8. jammie
  9. jammier
  10. jammies
  11. jammiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jammer (page history and authors); Jammer (page history and authors); jammer (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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