paging

American  

[pey-jing] / ˈpeɪ dʒɪŋ /

noun

Computers.

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.

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Etymology

Origin of paging

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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

You can picture Gober — whose best-known sculptures use familiar but distorted objects to conjure some of the perils of childhood — paging through obscure auction catalogs and haunting thrift shops.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2023

I kept swiping, paging through one video after another like a person possessed.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2023

I thought about grabbing my walkie-talkie and paging Grandma.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

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