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 as hard 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

  • Some would say a little japanese paging is a small price to pay for a pet of this caliber.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • This would leave the game paging from the hard disk resulting in noticeable slower performance.

    Intel Mac Mini memory upgrade — Meandering Passage 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "paging" -- writing memory blocks to the hard drive temporarily to free up space.

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2008

  • 'paging' - the process whereby pages of memory are written out to the hard drive for temporary storage for subsequent reading back in.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • Other services such as paging, personal radio communications and trunk radio services and customer premises equipment are already open to competition.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • He said other services such as paging, personal radio communications and trunk radio services and customer premises equipment were already open to competition.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • 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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