Usually means: Person or tool verifying correctness.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word checker:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. checker: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. checker, checker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. checker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. checker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. checker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Checker, checker: Wordnik
  7. checker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. checker: Wiktionary
  9. checker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. checker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. checker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Checker, checker: Dictionary.com
  13. checker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Checker (disambiguation), Checker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Checker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. checker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. checker: Rhymezone
  18. Checker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. checker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. checker: Free Dictionary
  21. checker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. checker: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. checker: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. checker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Checker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Checker: Backgammon

(Note: See checkered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who or that which checks or verifies something.
noun:  One who makes a check mark.
noun:  The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
noun:  One who hinders or stops something.
noun:  A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
noun:  A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
noun:  An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
verb:  (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
verb:  (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
noun:  The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

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