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

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

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2023

Friedman obviously had fun paging through old ads like that one, and the sometimes astonishingly retrograde magazine layouts overseen by serial dieters like Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2021

I see her look at the cover of my eyeball journal, and I hope she won’t start paging through it.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

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