Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The transfer of pages of data between a computer's main memory and an auxiliary memory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Order of the pages of a book or writing, or the marks by which this order is indicated; pagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing A transfer of pages between
main memory and an auxiliary store, such ashard disk drive. - verb Present participle of
page .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system)
- noun the system of numbering pages
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Examples
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Some would say a little japanese paging is a small price to pay for a pet of this caliber.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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This would leave the game paging from the hard disk resulting in noticeable slower performance.
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The 11-result view that I see with Cuil just requires more paging, which is wasting my time.
Cuil’s New Search Engine: Cheaper Than Google, but Not Better - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I prefer "less" rather than "more" because less allows backword paging as well as forward. when you say the tmp@ is green is it green text on a black background
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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I prefer "less" rather than "more" because less allows backword paging as well as forward. when you say the tmp@ is green is it green text on a black background
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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"paging" -- writing memory blocks to the hard drive temporarily to free up space.
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'paging' - the process whereby pages of memory are written out to the hard drive for temporary storage for subsequent reading back in.
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Other services such as paging, personal radio communications and trunk radio services and customer premises equipment are already open to competition.
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He said other services such as paging, personal radio communications and trunk radio services and customer premises equipment were already open to competition.
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Table data editor with handy functions such as paging, filtering, searching, generating SQL for data row (UPDATE, INSERT, etc.).
2BakSa.Net 2010
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