PAGING Definition & Meaning

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[ pey-jing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Computers.

a technique of storage management that transfers pages page from secondary storage to main storage when they are required, and returns them to secondary storage when they are not. Compare page ¹( def 6b ).

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Origin of paging¹

First recorded in 1965–70; page ¹ + -ing ¹

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Minutes later, Totorica was paging for an emergency team over the loudspeakers.

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He hopped in the basket and began paging through a book.

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But as soon as I began paging through, I realized I need not have worried.

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“This looks so good,” she says, paging through.

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“As far as I know, they chose to ignore all of it,” she said Wednesday after paging through the report.

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