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Definition: Allocator |
AllocatorNoun1. A person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AllocatorSynonym: distributor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Allocator |
| Specialty definitions using "allocator": blit ♦ FLOOR-SPACE ALLOCATOR ♦ malloc. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | Vietnam' financial system is in the early stages of reform and is not yet an efficient allocator of financial resources. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Allocator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allocator" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "allocator": resource-allocator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
allocator asset | 10 |
account allocator failed identifier initialize properly | 3 |
allocator | 3 |
allocator heap memory multi | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "allocator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 分配者. (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | تخصیص دهنده . (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Zuteiler, Verteiler (coil distributor, contributor, current distributor, dealer, delivery manifold, dispatcher, dispenser, distributaries, distributing board, distribution box, distribution chamber, distribution list, distributor, distributors, divider, igniter, ignition distributor, manifold, mechanical feeder, secondary canals, spinner, spreader, terminal block, timer). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | allocatoray распределитель (intersperse). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "allocator": allocators. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "allocator" (pronounced a"lukā'ter) |
| 6 | -l u k ā' t er | applicator. |
| 5 | -u k ā' t er | communicator, educator, indicator. |
| 4 | -k ā' t er | fabricator, locator, syndicator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, accumulator, activator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, alternator, animator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, commentator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, elevator, escalator, evaporator, excavator, exterminator, facilitator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incinerator, incubator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, manipulator, mediator, Moderator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, refrigerator, regulator, renovator, respirator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: collator. | |
-2 letters: corolla, locator. | |
-3 letters: aortal, catalo, collar. | |
-4 letters: actor, allot, altar, aorta, artal, atoll, calla, carat, carol, claro, cloot, coala, color, coral, craal, local, loral, octal, ratal, talar, taroc, tolar, troll. | |
-5 letters: acta, alar, alto, arco, call, calo, carl, cart, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, cool, coot, loca, loco, loot, lota, olla, oral, orca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: allocators. | |
+2 letters: collaborate. | |
+3 letters: astrological, collaborated, collaborates, collaborator, oratorically, reallocation. | |
+4 letters: collaborating, collaboration, collaborative, collaborators, correlational, ochlocratical, reallocations, teratological. | |
+5 letters: apotropaically, astrologically, astronomically, collaborations, collaboratives, dermatological, narratological, nomenclatorial, organometallic, primatological. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 6F 63 61 74 6F 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. --- -.-. .- - --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l o c a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 006F 0063 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357878816967868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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