spell checker1 a computer program that checks whether the spelling of words or the grammar of a sentence is correct 〔计算机上的〕拼写/语法检查程序spell/grammar checker• Some of these packages include excellent typographic extras, like a spell checker or thesaurus.• A spell checker, word count feature and thesaurus are all included and the program can handle headers and footers.• However, a dictionary pack for PageMaker is available which contains PageMaker spell checker modules for 20 different languages.
→ spell/grammar checker at checker(1)
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