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paging

[ pey-jing ]

noun

, Computers.
  1. 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of paging1

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

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Example Sentences

By paging through dozens of international covers, the teens are hoping to find pictures of themselves.

Paging: Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Rudolph Giuliani, George Pataki, Jeb Bush.

My Twitter went haywire—absolutely no clue why it sent that message or even what it is...paging the tech guys...

Paging through the photos, I am caught up in the fantasy of understanding.

Paging Timothy Leary: Janet Lessin claims on her Web site that she's able to travel astrally.

The paging of the preface and introductory matter is to be excepted.

When he was finally left alone at the shop, he continued the paging of a Latin book by the light of a lamp.

It was agreed on my paging with Pemberton that they should not be renewed until our correspondence ceased.

The menial in question was a uniformed bellboy winding in and out among tables and paging some elusive guest.

The reprint (I wish that in all other reprints a similar course was adopted) gives the paging of the original folio edition.

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