pagination
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Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
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the figures by which pages are marked to indicate their sequence.
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the act of paginating.
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Printing.
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Also called computer-assisted makeup. a method of computerized page makeup in which copy and graphic elements are manipulated with the aid of a video display terminal.
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Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of pagination
Explanation
Pagination is the process of putting numbers on successive pages of a book, and it's also the sequence of numbers itself. Without pagination, it would be hard to know how many pages of "Moby Dick" you have left to read. Pagination is important, especially when two or more people discuss a book — you can say, "I love what happens on page 94," and the members of your book group will turn to page 94, thanks to pagination. Pagination can be as easy as clicking "print" and watching your printer automatically number each page of your essay. Before the invention of the printing press, all pagination had to be done by hand, no matter how long the document.
Example Sentences
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They thumb through pages to make sure the ink density is proper, that the color is in registration, the margins are set, pagination perfect, date accurate.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024
Mr. Wong, who initially studied engineering in college and described himself as “kind of a techie,” helped install new pagination systems early in his journalism career.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022
Duncan gives a surprisingly vivid explanation of how the two foundations of the contemporary index — alphabetical order and pagination — themselves had to be invented.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022
It’s been a nightmare, the pagination: one comma in the first of those columns would throw off 200 pages.
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2020
In two parts, with separate pagination and signatures, and the final leaf of advertisement, Q4.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
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