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Card-matching machine
Answer for the clue "Card-matching machine ", 8 letters:
collator
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Word definitions for collator in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a person who collates 2 (context obsolete computing English) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards; a program that merges files 3 a police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collator \Col*la"tor\, n. [L.] One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. --Addison. (Eccl. Law) One who collates to a benefice. One who confers any benefit. [Obs.] --Feltham.
Usage examples of collator.
Look, as collator, this guy Levy's name has popped up on my computer screen more than once.
The previous day, she'd tried to contact the local information collator at the police station serving the area Terry had identified, only to discover the constable who ran their card index was on holiday and not due back until Monday.
The collator, Darren Watson, had dropped by the station to pick something up and he'd seen the message marked 'urgent' from Joanne.
As well as keeping a card index file of every known villain on the patch with details of their convictions, a good collator recorded associates, suspicions and gossip.
Joanne was acutely aware that the attrition of the day's work on top of too little sleep had left her a long way behind the collator in the grooming stakes.
We're talking ninety copies a minute with a collator and automatic feed.
The sofa, coffee table and bed were pushed to the wall, and a Canon Model 8580 copier with automatic feed and collator sat in the center with engines running.
She switched the Collator on and there was a whirring noise like a piece of paper stuck into a cycle wheel.
The rest of the team comprised one photographer, three intelligence collators, eight snipers, and nine assaulters.
She fed copies and unstapled and restapled while the machine clicked rapidly and spat the reproductions through the collator.