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sanitizer

noun
/ˈsænɪtaɪzɚ/US

Etymology

From sanitize + -er.

  1. derived from sānitās
  2. derived from sanité
  3. inherited from sanite
  4. suffixed as sanitize — “sanity + -ize”
  5. suffixed as sanitizer — “sanitize + er”

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of sanitize

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

    • hand sanitizer

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sanitizer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA