paging

[ pey-jing ]
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nounComputers.
  1. a technique of storage management that transfers pages from secondary storage to main storage when they are required, and returns them to secondary storage when they are not.: Compare page1 (def. 6b).

Origin of paging

1
First recorded in 1965–70; page1 + -ing1

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