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paging

American

[pey-jing] / ˈpeɪ dʒɪŋ /

noun

Computers.

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.

Etymology

Origin of paging

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

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