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sanitizer

US/ˈsænɪtaɪzɚ/

sanitizer noun: a program to detect errors in code, usually integrated into a compiler. Also the agent noun of sanitize.

Noun

sanitizer (countable and uncountable, plural sanitizers)

  1. A program to detect errors in code, usually integrated into a compiler.
    • memory sanitizer
    • Sanitizers have been available for a while with the Clang compiler and were later also introduced into the GCC toolset.2018, Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio, CMake Cookbook: Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 218

Also used as

sanitizer is also the agent noun of sanitize.

Forms of sanitizer

pluralsanitizers
alternative formsanitiser

Plural of sanitizer: sanitizers

Origin of sanitizer

From sanitize + -er.

Phrases with sanitizer

Questions about sanitizer

What does sanitizer mean?
Sanitizer means a program to detect errors in code, usually integrated into a compiler.
What part of speech is sanitizer?
Sanitizer is a noun.
How do you pronounce sanitizer?
Sanitizer is pronounced /ˈsænɪtaɪzɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of sanitizer?
The plural of sanitizer is sanitizers.

Words near sanitizer in the dictionary

  1. sanitizable
  2. sanitization
  3. sanitizations
  4. sanitize
  5. sanitized
  6. sanitizer
  7. sanitizers
  8. sanitizes
  9. sanitizing
  10. sanitizing wipe
  11. sanitizing wipes

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