pagination

American  

[paj-uh-ney-shuhn] / ˌpædʒ əˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

1. Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.

2. the figures by which pages are marked to indicate their sequence.

3. the act of paginating.

4. Printing.

   1. 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.

   2. composition.

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Other Word Forms

• mispagination noun
• repagination noun

Etymology

Origin of pagination

1835–45; < Latin pāgin(a) page ¹ + -ation

Example Sentences

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

Unless otherwise stated, the copies of the forms here referred to are printed at London, and they are for the most part in black-letter, without pagination.

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various