splicer

[ splahy-ser ]

noun
  1. a device used to hold two sections of motion-picture film, recording tape, etc., in proper alignment while they are being spliced together.

Origin of splicer

1
First recorded in 1925–30; splice + -er1

Words Nearby splicer

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How to use splicer in a sentence

  • Participants train for jobs including line mechanics, cable splicer mechanics, helper transformer testers, meter technicians, and other roles that are essential to building and maintaining the city’s infrastructure.

  • One which hardly shows itself, from the neatness of the rope and the skill of the splicer.

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  • It was an envelope slipped behind the bookcase, containing a bill from splicer, the London cricket-bat-maker, dated a year ago.

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