sanitizer

English

Alternative forms

• sanitiser

Etymology

From sanitize +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsænɪtaɪzɚ/, /ˈsænətaɪzɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sanitizer (countable and uncountable, plural sanitizers)

1. agent noun of sanitize; one who sanitizes; a product that provides a sanitized result.

   hand sanitizer

2. (software) A program to detect errors in code, usually integrated into a compiler.

   Coordinate term: linter

   memory sanitizer

   • 2018, Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio, CMake Cookbook: Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 218:

     Sanitizers have been available for a while with the Clang compiler and were later also introduced into the GCC toolset.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: asenizator m
• Spanish: sanitizante m, saneante m, desinfectante (es) m, abstergente (es) m, higienizante m

Anagrams

• Nazirites, triazines