# paging

Pronunciation: say "PAY-jing" /ˈpeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of page. — present participle and gerund of page
   - Simple: The -ing form of page. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.
   - _The front desk is paging the guest who left her phone by the pool._
   - _The hospital kept paging the surgeon throughout the emergency._

## Noun

2. In computing, the moving of pages of data back and forth between main memory and a secondary store, such as a hard disk drive.
   - Simple: Moving blocks of data between a computer's main memory and storage like a hard drive.
   - _Excessive paging slowed the server to a crawl during peak load._
   - _The operating system relies on paging to run programs larger than physical memory._
3. The arrangement and ordering of pages within a book or other publication.
   - Simple: The way the pages are set out and ordered in a book or magazine.
   - _The designer adjusted the paging so no chapter ended on a blank leaf._
   - _Poor paging left several photographs separated from their captions._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/paging (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).