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# allocator

«allocator» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person or thing that shares out or gives out parts of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an allocator, allocators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person or thing that shares out or gives out parts of something, such as money, places or jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#m1)

2) (computing) Part of a computer program that hands out memory space when it is needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal and technical word. In everyday or school use it means the one who divides things up; in computing it is the code that gives out memory. In maths problems, it is the one who shares an amount into parts. Phrases: memory allocator, seat allocator.

### examples

- The allocator gave each team a room for the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x1)
- The teacher acted as the allocator of jobs for the class trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x2)
- A memory allocator gives programs the space they need. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x3)
- The ticket allocator made sure every family got two seats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x4)
- The money allocator divided the budget between the clubs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x5)
- The computer's allocator ran out of free memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x6)
- Who is the allocator of the parking spaces? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/#x7)

### note

Countable: allocators. From the verb allocate (to share out for a purpose); noun allocation. Rare in everyday talk; children mostly meet "allocate" and "allocation". Not the same as "alligator"!

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «allocator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allocator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.